Self-Employment and Migration
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poo...
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okr-10986-324142022-09-20T00:15:22Z Self-Employment and Migration Giambra, Samuele McKenzie, David INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SELF EMPLOYMENT RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of existing jobs, providing more opportunities for people to start businesses is a key policy option. But empirical evidence to support this idea is slight, and economic theory offers several reasons why the self-employed may be more likely to migrate. This paper puts together panel surveys from eight countries to descriptively examine the relationship between migration and self-employment, finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely to migrate than wage workers or the unemployed. The paper then analyzes seven randomized experiments that increased self-employment, and finds that their causal impacts on migration are negative on average, but often small in magnitude. 2019-09-18T20:58:22Z 2019-09-18T20:58:22Z 2019-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/981521568303685878/Self-Employment-and-Migration http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32414 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9007 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SELF EMPLOYMENT RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT Giambra, Samuele McKenzie, David Self-Employment and Migration |
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There is a widespread policy view that a
lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for
migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend
more on creating these opportunities to reduce migration.
Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced
with a lack of existing jobs, providing more opportunities
for people to start businesses is a key policy option. But
empirical evidence to support this idea is slight, and
economic theory offers several reasons why the self-employed
may be more likely to migrate. This paper puts together
panel surveys from eight countries to descriptively examine
the relationship between migration and self-employment,
finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely to
migrate than wage workers or the unemployed. The paper then
analyzes seven randomized experiments that increased
self-employment, and finds that their causal impacts on
migration are negative on average, but often small in magnitude. |
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Giambra, Samuele McKenzie, David |
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Giambra, Samuele McKenzie, David |
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Giambra, Samuele |
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Self-Employment and Migration |
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Self-Employment and Migration |
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Self-Employment and Migration |
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Self-Employment and Migration |
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Self-Employment and Migration |
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self-employment and migration |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/981521568303685878/Self-Employment-and-Migration http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32414 |
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