The gross pollution disadvantage of immigrants in Germany translate into a 2.19 percent higher mortality risk due to NO2 and a 0.58 percent higher mortality risk due to PM2.5.
We test if the subjective impairment through air pollution selectively affects the probability of out-migration according to income and minority status.
The study uses longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the process of selective migration and its connection to the perceived exposure to air pollution in Germany.