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  • Ginsburg, Carren (författare)

Human capital on the move : Education as a determinant of internal migration in selected INDEPTH surveillance populations in Africa

  • Artikel/kapitelEngelska2016

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  • 2016
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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:umu-123071
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-123071URI
  • https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.30DOI

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  • Språk:engelska
  • Sammanfattning på:engelska

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  • BACKGROUND Education, as a key indicator of human capital, is considered one of the major determinants of internal migration, with previous studies suggesting that human capital accumulates in urban areas at the expense of rural areas. However, there is fragmentary evidence concerning the educational correlates of internal migration in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVES The study questions whether more precise measures of migration in Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) populations support the hypothesis that migrants are self-selected on human capital and more educated people are more likely to leave rural areas or enter urban areas within a geographical region. METHODS Using unique longitudinal data representing approximately 900,000 people living in eight sub-Saharan African HDSS sites that are members of the INDEPTH Network, the paper uses Event History Analysis techniques to examine the relationship between formal educational attainment and in-and out-migration, over the period 2009 to 2011. RESULTS Between 7% and 27% of these local populations are moving in or out of the HDSS area over this period. Education is positively associated with both in-and out-migration in the Kenyan HDSS areas; however, the education effect has no clear pattern in the HDSS sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and South Africa. CONCLUSIONS Empirical results presented in this paper confirm a strong age profile of migration consistent with human capital expectation, yet the results point to variability in the association of education and the propensity to migrate. In particular, the hypothesis of a shift of human capital from rural to urban areas is not universally valid.

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  • Beguy, Donatien (författare)
  • Augusto, Orvalho (författare)
  • Odhiambo, Frank (författare)
  • Soura, Abdramane (författare)
  • White, Michael J. (författare)
  • Bocquier, Philippe (författare)
  • Afolabi, Sulaimon (författare)
  • Derra, Karim (författare)
  • Otiende, Mark (författare)
  • Zabre, Pascal (författare)
  • Collinson, Mark A.Umeå universitet,Epidemiologi och global hälsa,Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa. INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana.(Swepub:umu)maco0022 (författare)
  • Umeå universitetEpidemiologi och global hälsa (creator_code:org_t)

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  • Ingår i:Demographic Research34:on Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries, JAN 22-24, 1996,, s. 845-8841435-9871

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