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Internal Migration in Ghana : Determinants and Welfare Impacts / Ackah, Charles
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Ackah, Charles
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology.
- Culture and Development.
- Formal education.
- Gender.
- Gender and Development.
- Health.
- Household income.
- Household size.
- Internal migrants.
- Internal Migration.
- Labor supply.
- Living Standards.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Medical care.
- Migrant.
- Migrants.
- Number of migrants.
- Nutrition and Population.
- Policy Research.
- Policy Research Working Paper.
- Population Policies.
- Progress.
- Remittances.
- Rural areas.
- Rural origin.
- Sanitation.
- Social Development.
- Urban areas.
- Urban communities.
- Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropology.
- Culture and Development.
- Formal education.
- Gender.
- Gender and Development.
- Health.
- Household income.
- Household size.
- Internal migrants.
- Internal Migration.
- Labor supply.
- Living Standards.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Medical care.
- Migrant.
- Migrants.
- Number of migrants.
- Nutrition and Population.
- Policy Research.
- Policy Research Working Paper.
- Population Policies.
- Progress.
- Remittances.
- Rural areas.
- Rural origin.
- Sanitation.
- Social Development.
- Urban areas.
- Urban communities.
- Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (25 pages)
- Other Title:
- Internal Migration In Ghana
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Using a recently compiled dataset on migration and remittances in Ghana, this paper estimates the determinants of an individual's likelihood to be an internal migrant and the relationship between internal migration and welfare. The analysis finds that the likelihood to migrate is determined by a combination of individual (pull) and community-level (push) characteristics. The probability of migration is higher for younger and more educated individuals, but communities with higher levels of literacy, higher rates of subsidized medical care, and better access to water and sanitation are less likely to produce migrants. The analysis finds that households with migrants tend to be better off than similar households without migrants, even after controlling for the fact that households with migrants are a non-random sample of Ghanaians. However, the positive relationship is only true for households with at least one migrant in urban areas; the welfare of households with migrants exclusively in rural areas is no different from households without any migrants.
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