Page 4 - Internal Migration News Today

Matthew Kahn, Siqi Zheng The large productivity gaps across regions or sectors within developing countries create an enduring development puzzle: Why do workers remain in low productivity areas when they could experience wage gains elsewhere (Gollin et al. 2014)? It is important to understand the drivers of worker location choices, as migration has the potential to produce substantial economic gains. The literature proposes a few explanations for the low rates of within-country mobility observe...

Call for Proposals: COVID-19 Impact on Internal Migration, Labor Markets and Urbanization The COVID-19 has created large-scale distresses and economic disruption globally which resulted in labor market disruptions. The lockdowns and the shutdown of the economic activities caused loss of income for many migrant workers and were especially difficult for those whose livelihoods are dependent upon daily wages. Increased vulnerability of internal (and international migrants with irregular migration ...

The Lockdown Made the Migrant Population Visible, but More Needs To Be Done Data showed that the magnitude of interstate migration in India was close to nine million between 2011 and 2016. Other estimates of number of migrants in the workforce is around 100 million. A migrant labourer with his family walks along a road to reach Sarai Kale Khan for travelling back to his native place Madhya Pradesh, during the ongoing lockdown, at Anand Vihar in New Delhi, May 13, 2020. Photo: PTI/Manvender Vash...

Internal migration resulted in a net loss of 11,200 people from Australia’s capital cities in the September quarter of 2020, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data released this month. At the same time, some regional areas experienced significant growth in house prices as demand for properties increased. So this has raised the questions: are we starting to see an exodus from our cities, and is this related to the COVID-19 pandemic? To work out what is happening there are a few imp...