scholarly journals Investigating Rural – Urban Migration in Developing Countries of the World a Focus in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Anselem Chukwuemeka Nweke
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
The World ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Does post-migration education improve labour market performance? Findings from four cities in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 1139-1153
Author(s):  
Devanto Shasta Pratomo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Multinomial Logit ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Recent Migrant ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine which factors are important in determining the post-migration education among rural-urban migrants in Indonesia. Second, to investigate whether investing in post-migration education in the cities improves the labour market performances of rural-urban migrants. The labour market performances are measured by the occupational (work) statuses and earnings (wages) at destination. Design/methodology/approach The determinants of post-migration education are estimated using a binary probit and ordinary least square, while a multinomial logit model and a two-step procedure of Lee’s selection-biased correction based on the multinomial logit are used to examine the effects of post-migration education on the labour market performances of migrants measured by occupational status and by wages. The main source of the data used in this study is the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) 2009-2011 survey conducted in the four largest recent migrant destination cities in Indonesia including Tangerang, Medan, Samarinda, and Makassar. Findings Post-migration education contributes significantly to the labour market performance in terms of work status and wages, compared to pre-migration education. In terms of work status, migrants with more post-migration education are more likely to be employed in the formal sector compared to migrants with less or no post-migration education. Relating to earnings, migrants with more post-migration education also tend to be paid more than those migrants with less or no post-migration education. Originality/value The role of post-migration education in the case of rural-urban migration particularly in developing countries is a relatively neglected area of research. One possible reason is because of the lack of data for rural-urban migration particularly in the case of developing countries. This study is taking advantage by using a new data set from RUMiCI focusing specifically on the rural-urban migrants in the four largest recent migrant destination cities in Indonesia including Tangerang, Medan, Samarinda, and Makassar.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Male Internal Migration and Its Correlation to Employment Status: Evidence from the Punjab

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Muhammad Akram ◽  
Lubna Shahnaz ◽  
Surayya Surayya
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Migration Rates ◽  
The World ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Migration plays a pivotal role in the reallocation of human resources under changing demand and supply conditions. Migration takes place when an individual decides that it is preferable to move rather than to stay and where the difficulties of moving seem to be less than the expected rewards. In recent years there has been a trend of increasing migration rates. The United Nations (2000) estimates that about 140 million persons (roughly 2 per cent of the world’s population) reside in a country where they are not born.1 Usually migration takes place from the regions that are associated with poverty and insecurity towards regions which offer greater security of life, employment and basic social services. Poverty pushes people to migrate to urban areas-the outcome, the world’s urban population approaches 2.3 billion by 1990 with 61 per cent living in the metropolitan areas of developing countries and touches 66 per cent in 2000 (United Nations). Within the world Asia has about 15 of the largest cities of the world and most of them are growing at more than 5 per cent per annum. Increased rate of natural growth, immigration and rural-urban migration might be the causes of such a high rate of growth of urban population.

In Perspective: A Summing Up

2021 ◽  
pp. 385-410
Author(s):  
Robert E.B. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Transformation Potential ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

The cumulative findings are summarized under five cross-cutting themes: rural-urban migration and urbanization; the role of rural-urban migration in economic development; the incidence and nature of temporary moves; the consequences of gender imbalance in migration; and implications for the structure and well-being of families. Also included are reflections on the complex range of policies that shape internal migration and the lack of coordination in planning. The desirability of intent to limit rural-urban migration is doubted, given the inexorability of structural transformation, potential gains to moving, and continuing threat from climate change. Planning for managed urban growth, which remains in its infancy in many developing countries, is vital. A closing postscript portrays populations as trapped between declining rural opportunities as climate change proceeds and COVID centered in cities. It is too early to predict how the dynamics of the pandemic will evolve, but climate change will not likely be contained.

scholarly journals Rural Property Rights, Migration, and Welfare in Developing Countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 997-1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiancai Pi ◽  
Yu Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Wage Rate ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Enhancing Effect ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Abstract Two-sector general equilibrium models are built to investigate how the quality of rural property rights influences rural-urban migration and national welfare in developing countries. In the basic model where the urban wage rate is exogenously given, the impacts of strengthened rural property rights on rural-urban migration and national welfare are determined by comparisons of the rent-gaining effect and the productivity-enhancing effect. Specifically, if the rent-gaining effect dominates the productivity-enhancing effect, strengthened rural property rights will increase the number of rural-urban migrants and reduce national welfare. Otherwise, the opposite impacts are exerted if the productivity-enhancing effect dominates the rent-gaining effect. When we extend the basic model by considering the endogenously determined urban minimum wage rate, the urban minimum wage determination mechanism is also of great importance in determining the outcomes of the basic model. When we extend the basic model by introducing an urban informal sector, the value of labor’s marginal product of the urban informal sector also plays a role in determining the impact of strengthened rural property rights on national welfare. In addition, urban unemployment is also taken into account by the basic and extended models.

The Effects of World Capitalist Economy on Urbanization in Egypt, 1800–1970

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad A. Chaichian
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

This research paper provides an historical analysis of urbanization in Egypt and its relationships to her incorporation into the world capitalist economy during the last two centuries. My major concern is to discover more about the following issues: (1) the historical reasons for the structural disjunction of the peasant population from rural areas; and (2) the dynamics of rural–urban migration and the problem of overconcentration of population in a few major urban centers.

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