Migrants, Markets, and Mayors : Rising Above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights
In our rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their city’s labor market and a threat to its development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, this study finds that migrant...
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okr-10986-367552022-01-13T21:14:30Z Migrants, Markets, and Mayors : Rising Above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights Christiaensen, Luc Lozano Gracia, Nancy MIGRANT LABOR URBAN LABOR MARKET LABOR MOBILITY URBANIZATION In our rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their city’s labor market and a threat to its development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, this study finds that migrants, being younger, better educated and/or complementary to the resident labor force, usually strengthen the urban labor force. In secondary cities, labor market outcomes for migrants are at least as good as those for residents. Migrants also contribute increasingly less to urban population growth. Secondary cities thus appear well placed to leverage migration. This requires good urban management that develops land and labor markets, prepares for growth and benefits everyone, migrants as well as residents. Migrant specific interventions are warranted when divisions between natives and migrants are deep. Strengthening the financial, technical, and planning capacity of towns to better integrate migrants is part and parcel of the good job’s agenda. 2021-12-21T20:08:44Z 2021-12-21T20:08:44Z 2021-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/581181639545470049/Migrants-Markets-and-Mayors-Rising-Above-the-Employment-Challenge-in-Africa-s-Secondary-Cities-Key-Insights http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36755 English Jobs Working Paper;No. 63 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa |
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In our rapidly urbanizing world,
mayors often see migrants as a burden to their city’s labor
market and a threat to its development. Drawing on national
household surveys and four secondary city case studies in
Africa, this study finds that migrants, being younger,
better educated and/or complementary to the resident labor
force, usually strengthen the urban labor force. In
secondary cities, labor market outcomes for migrants are at
least as good as those for residents. Migrants also
contribute increasingly less to urban population growth.
Secondary cities thus appear well placed to leverage
migration. This requires good urban management that develops
land and labor markets, prepares for growth and benefits
everyone, migrants as well as residents. Migrant specific
interventions are warranted when divisions between natives
and migrants are deep. Strengthening the financial,
technical, and planning capacity of towns to better
integrate migrants is part and parcel of the good job’s agenda. |
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Christiaensen, Luc Lozano Gracia, Nancy |
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Christiaensen, Luc Lozano Gracia, Nancy |
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Christiaensen, Luc |
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors : Rising Above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights |
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors : Rising Above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights |
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors : Rising Above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights |
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors : Rising Above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights |
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors : Rising Above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights |
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migrants, markets, and mayors : rising above the employment challenge in africa’s secondary cities – key insights |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2021 |
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