The impact of inter-provincial migration on the labor market outcomes in two developed provinces in South Africa
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2020
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This study used the South African Census 2011 data to examine the impact of interprovincial
migration on the labor market outcomes in the Western Cape and Gauteng,
the two most developed and popular inter-provincial migration destination provinces
in South Africa. In both provinces, the residents were divided into four groups: permanent
residents, intra-provincial migrants, long-term inter-provincial migrants and
short-term inter-provincial migrants. The descriptive statistics indicated that both
short- and long-term inter-provincial migrants into the two provinces were likely to
be young people aged 15-34 years, unmarried African urban residents with 11-12 educational
years on average, coming from households with three members. These interprovincial
migrants enjoyed lower unemployment rates than the permanent residents,
but the intra-provincial migrants remained the best-performing group with the lowest
unemployment rate and highest share of employed persons involved in formal sector
activities.
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Migration, Inter-provincial migration, Labor market, Western Cape, Gauteng
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Yu, D., & Kleinhans, J. (2020). The impact of inter-provincial migration on the labor market outcomes in two developed provinces in South Africa. AHMR African Human Mobilty Review ,6(2)