Working Paper: NBER ID: w22326
Authors: Julia Garlick; Murray Leibbrandt; James Levinsohn
Abstract: We estimate the returns to internal migration in South Africa. These appear to be the first nationally representative estimates of the return to migration for any African country-- a somewhat surprising claim for a literature that's over 60 years old. We develop a framework to analyze individual migration in the context of income pooling within endogenously formed households. We apply this framework to estimate the return to migration from the perspective of the migrant (as is typically done) as well as from the perspectives of the sending and receiving households.
Keywords: migration; household income; South Africa
JEL Codes: O10; O12; O15
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| migration (F22) | household per capita income (hhpci) (D31) |
| sending a migrant (F22) | household per capita income (hhpci) (D31) |
| receiving a migrant (F22) | household per capita income (hhpci) (D31) |
| migration (F22) | returns to migration (F22) |
| migration (F22) | economic advantage for migrants (J61) |