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Immigration and Unemployment Nexus: A Micro-Level Investigation of Ugandan Youth

Immigration and Unemployment Nexus: A Micro-Level Investigation of Ugandan Youth

Esra Karapınar Kocağ
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781668467503|ISBN10: 166846750X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668467510|EISBN13: 9781668467527
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6750-3.ch006
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Karapınar Kocağ, Esra. "Immigration and Unemployment Nexus: A Micro-Level Investigation of Ugandan Youth." Frameworks for Sustainable Development Goals to Manage Economic, Social, and Environmental Shocks and Disasters, edited by Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 96-112. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6750-3.ch006

APA

Karapınar Kocağ, E. (2022). Immigration and Unemployment Nexus: A Micro-Level Investigation of Ugandan Youth. In C. Popescu (Ed.), Frameworks for Sustainable Development Goals to Manage Economic, Social, and Environmental Shocks and Disasters (pp. 96-112). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6750-3.ch006

Chicago

Karapınar Kocağ, Esra. "Immigration and Unemployment Nexus: A Micro-Level Investigation of Ugandan Youth." In Frameworks for Sustainable Development Goals to Manage Economic, Social, and Environmental Shocks and Disasters, edited by Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu, 96-112. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6750-3.ch006

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Abstract

Youth unemployment is a rising concern for many countries across the world. The gap between youth and adult is even wider in Sub-Saharan Africa than the world average. There might be several reasons to explain, yet this chapter focuses on one controversial potential reason: immigration. This continent has experienced considerable migration flows and one could expect that immigration worsens labour market conditions for native youth. Uganda as one of the Sub-Saharan countries is investigated to see if immigrants have a significant impact on unemployment probability of young Ugandans using cross-sectional census data for the years of 1991, 2002, and 2014. Data set was drawn from IPUMS-International. Findings indicate that regional share of immigrants does not have a significant large effect on unemployment probability of youth in Uganda. A further investigation showed that higher share of immigrants in a given region lowers the probability of being not in the labour force across specifications. This means immigrants do not push native youth out of the labour force in the Uganda case.

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