The Role of Informal Urban Settlements in Upward Mobility

Ivan Turok, Josh Budlender and Justin Visagie ()
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Justin Visagie: HSRC

Working Papers from University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit

Abstract: The paper uses longitudinal data for South Africa to explore the magnitude of social progression among people living within informal settlements compared with the residents of rural areas and formal urban areas. The objective is to assess whether shack settlements foster or frustrate human progress in the way they link people to the services, contacts and livelihoods concentrated in cities.

Keywords: Informal urban settlements; South Africa; social mobility; livelihoods; rural-urban migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E26 I3 J46 O17 R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2017-02
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Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, Febraury 2017, pages 1-43

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