Publication Date:
2015-05-21
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.
Keywords:
E24 - Employment
;
Unemployment
;
Wages
;
Intergenerational Income Distribution, J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure, J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility
;
Immigrant Workers, Q54 - Climate
;
Natural Disasters
;
Global Warming, R23 - Regional Migration
;
Regional Labor Markets
;
Population
Print ISSN:
0258-6770
Electronic ISSN:
1564-698X
Topics:
Economics
