Research Insights: What Are the Effects of Weather-Induced Rural-Urban Migration on Destinations’ Labor and Housing Markets?

Cities that received more migrants observed faster growth in employment and a slower increase in wages. The wage effects are stronger in the service sector, likely due to its higher degree of labor informality. The stock of precarious housing units increased in cities receiving more rural migrants, rents for this type of housing did not increase, suggesting that supply kept pace with migration-driven growth in demand. Non-precarious housing experienced faster growth in rents but slower growth in quantities in cities that received more rural migrants. This is consistent with cities having a limited supply of land for housing.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: Matías Busso
Language:English
Published: Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:Human Migration, Housing Market, Migrant, Internal Migration, Rural Area, Housing, Wage, Labor, Labor Market, Climate Change, Municipal Government, Emerging Market, Rating, Standard Deviation, J46 - Informal Labor Markets, J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers, O18 - Urban Rural Regional and Transportation Analysis • Housing • Infrastructure, R23 - Regional Migration • Regional Labor Markets • Population • Neighborhood Characteristics, Urban labor markets;Urban housing markets;Rural-urban migration;Weather-induced migration,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004829
https://publications.iadb.org/en/research-insights-what-are-effects-weather-induced-rural-urban-migration-destinations-labor-and
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