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Determinants of Internal Migration among Senegalese Youth

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  • David SAHN

    (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI))

  • Catalina HERRERA

Abstract

We analyze the socio-economic determinants of youth decision to internally migrate in Senegal. Young people undertake mostly rural-to-rural and urban-to-urban migrations and over half of them are temporary migrants. Using multinomial logit models, we estimate the role of household and community characteristics during childhood in later youth migration decisions. We find that these determinants are heterogeneous by gender and destination. The higher the fathers’ education the more (less) likely are their daughters to move to urban (rural) areas. Young individuals, who spend their childhood in better off households, are more likely to move to urban areas. Also, the presence of younger siblings increases the propensity of moving to rural areas. Access to primary schools during childhood decreases the likelihood of migrating to urban areas for both men and women.

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Paper provided by CERDI in its series Working Papers with number 201308.

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Length: 42
Date of creation: 2013
Handle: RePEc:cdi:wpaper:1433
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Keywords: Internal migration; Senegal; Youth; Multinomial logit;

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Cited by:

  1. Isabelle Chort & Philippe De Vreyer & Thomas Zuber, 2017. "Gendered internal migration patterns in Senegal," Working Papers DT/2017/02, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).

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