While an emerging literature cites weather shocks as major determinants of migration, scant evidence exists on how such migration impacts the labor markets of receiving communities in developing countries. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by investigating the impact of weather-driven internal migration on labor markets in a post-conflict country, Nepal. Contrary to the conventional narrative, it has been found that prevailing environmental and conflict factors entice workers with positively selected attributes (such as education and skill) to migrate.
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