The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda

Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Consistent with the prediction of a simple theoretical model, our result...

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Main Authors:	Strobl, Eric, Valfort, Marie-Anne
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2017
Subjects:	labor markets weather migration road density employment agriculture
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25846

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spelling	okr-10986-258462021-04-23T14:04:32Z The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda Strobl, Eric Valfort, Marie-Anne labor markets weather migration road density employment agriculture Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Consistent with the prediction of a simple theoretical model, our results reveal a larger negative impact than the one documented for developed countries. They further show that this negative impact is significantly stronger in Ugandan regions with lower road density and therefore less conducive to capital mobility: a 10 percentage points increase in the net in-migration rate in these areas decreases the probability of being employed of non-migrants by more than 10 percentage points. 2017-01-11T22:46:19Z 2017-01-11T22:46:19Z 2015-07 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25846 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Uganda
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spellingShingle	labor markets weather migration road density employment agriculture Strobl, Eric Valfort, Marie-Anne The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda
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description	Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Consistent with the prediction of a simple theoretical model, our results reveal a larger negative impact than the one documented for developed countries. They further show that this negative impact is significantly stronger in Ugandan regions with lower road density and therefore less conducive to capital mobility: a 10 percentage points increase in the net in-migration rate in these areas decreases the probability of being employed of non-migrants by more than 10 percentage points.
format	Journal Article
author	Strobl, Eric Valfort, Marie-Anne
author_facet	Strobl, Eric Valfort, Marie-Anne
author_sort	Strobl, Eric
title	The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda
title_short	The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda
title_full	The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda
title_fullStr	The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda
title_full_unstemmed	The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda
title_sort	effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets : evidence from uganda
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2017
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25846
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The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda

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