The effect of social capital on migration aspiration and migration capability: Insights from northern Ethiopia

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI:10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103236

Aradom Gebrekidan Abbay , Hossein Azadi , Weldebrhan Ayalew , Zbelo Tesfamariam , Solomon Hishe , Tekeste Birhanu Lakew , Misghna Gebrehiwot , Tafesse W. Gezahegn , Kamran Nasirahmadi , Astrida Miceikienė , Chi Yin

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Abstract

The decision to migrate is an important economic decision to make. Push factors, such as poverty, drought, lack of jobs, etc. are expected to play a role in forcing the youth to migrate. In the study area, however, youths of similar economic, demographic, and geographic background are observed to have different migration propensities. This paper examines the role of social capital in fostering migration aspiration and migration capability. The study employs both qualitative and quantitative data collected using a cross-sectional research design. In order to account for a potential interdependence between migration aspiration and migration capability, the seemingly unrelated bivariate probit model is used to analyze the data. After controlling some socio-economic and demographic variables, the results show a positive effect of social capital on both migration aspiration and migration capability. The findings indicate that broker influence (relative to job search) and age have a lower effect on the desire for migration, while Christianity has a higher effect relative to other religious beliefs. Findings indicate that farmers and the unemployed have lower migration ability compared to students. The presence of previous immigrants in the family also has a lower effect on migration ability.

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社会资本对移民意愿和移民能力的影响：来自埃塞俄比亚北部的见解

移民是一项重要的经济决策。贫困、干旱、缺乏工作等推动因素预计将在迫使年轻人迁移方面发挥作用。然而，在研究区域，经济、人口和地理背景相似的年轻人被观察到有不同的移民倾向。本文考察了社会资本在促进移民意愿和移民能力方面的作用。本研究采用采用横断面研究设计收集的定性和定量数据。为了解释迁移愿望和迁移能力之间潜在的相互依赖关系，使用看似不相关的双变量probit模型来分析数据。在控制了一些社会经济和人口变量后，结果显示社会资本对移民意愿和移民能力都有正向影响。研究结果表明，经纪人影响（相对于求职）和年龄对移民意愿的影响较小，而基督教对其他宗教信仰的影响较大。研究结果表明，农民和失业人员的迁移能力低于学生。家庭中先前移民的存在对移民能力的影响也较低。

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Habitat International Multiple-

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10.50

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10.30%

发文量

151

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.