Migrants, Markets and Mayors Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities – Key Insights

Luc Christiaensen and Nancy Lozano Gracia
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Nancy Lozano-Gracia

No 33675341, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: migrant; labor market integration of migrants; secondary city; national household survey data; rural to urban migration; solid waste management facility; gender-based discrimination; sexual harassment of woman; access to urban service; disaster risk management; female labor force participation; Social and Economic Inclusion; access to basic service; labor market integration policy; urban labor market; urban population growth; urban labor force; labor market outcome; Gender-Based Violence; large urban centers; data collection effort; Housing and Land; duration of stay; place of origin; natural population growth; good urban management; land and housing; labor market policy; characteristics of migrant; availability of service; urban local government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2022-01-14
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