Rural Out-Migration and Family Life in Cities in Mongolia
There is a growing concern among policy makers and the international development community about the rapid concentration of migrants in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar (UB) and its social, economic, and environmental consequences (UNDP, 2003). The...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/432631468323707757/Rural-out-migration-and-family-life-in-cities-in-Mongolia-background-paper http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27412 |
| Summary: | There is a growing concern among policy
makers and the international development community about the
rapid concentration of migrants in the capital city of
Ulaanbaatar (UB) and its social, economic, and environmental
consequences (UNDP, 2003). These concerns call for a good
understanding of the nature of migration in Mongolia and its
impacts on the life of migrants. Using the 2007-08 Household
Economic and Social Survey of Mongolia, this paper aims to:
(a) document the characteristics of recent internal
migration in Mongolia; and (b) assess the livelihoods of
rural-to-urban migrants in comparison to those staying in
rural areas as well as to local urban residents. The
analysis in this paper suggests that rural out-migration is
negatively correlated with the chance of falling into
poverty. For those who did not migrate from rural areas,
their poverty incidence was much higher, and their
consumption level much lower, than that of rural-to-urban
migrants. However, not all urban destinations are equal:
there is a large discrepancy in livelihoods between those
moving to aimag centers versus those moving the UB. The
poverty incidence of rural migrant families moving into
aimag centers was 33 percent, whereas 24 percent for those
migrant families moving into UB. |
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