Internal Migration in Ethiopia : Evidence from a Quantitative and Qualitative Research Study
In many developing countries, disparities in living standards between lagging and leading areas, or between rural and urban areas, are large. The spatial disparities in living standards offer a compelling motivation for people in lagging areas to m...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/428111562239161418/Internal-Migration-in-Ethiopia-Evidence-from-a-Quantitative-and-Qualitative-Research-Study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32097 |
| Summary: | In many developing countries,
disparities in living standards between lagging and leading
areas, or between rural and urban areas, are large. The
spatial disparities in living standards offer a compelling
motivation for people in lagging areas to move closer to
economic density. Ethiopia too has a history of trying to
prevent or limit internal migration. A small but growing
micro-economic empirical literature finds large welfare
effects of internal migration. While a population census
offers the best source of data to study internal migration,
the most recent census was conducted in 2007. The next
census is planned to happen towards end 2018, while the
census microdata will likely not be available before 2020.
As a result, this paper uses three rounds of the labor force
surveys (LFS) and look at trends and patterns of internal
migration in Ethiopia and the characteristics of internal
migrants. To contextualize the quantitative analysis, a
qualitative research study with rural migrants in urban
areas was conducted in May 2017. This note takes a closer
look at the scale and nature of internal migration in
Ethiopia. This note os organized as follows: section one
gives introduction. Section two presents the scale and
pattern of internal migration, focusing particularly on
rural-to-urban migration. Section three focuses on the
characteristics and motivations of migrants, focusing on
push and pull factors and disaggregating by type of
migration. The main findings from the qualitative research
are summarized in section four. The final section concludes
and formulates some tentative recommendations. |
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