Internal Migration and Employment Prospects in Urban Ethiopia: (A Case Study of South Wollo Administrative Zone)

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to examine the socioeconomic factors associated with employment prospects of migrants in urban areas. For this purpose, multinomial logistic regression was used. The coefficients of married and years of schooling are negatively related, while length of years is positively related to individual migrant engaged in informal sect and all variables are statistically significant. Among the variables positively correlated to be unemployed are temporary migration, current places of the migrant as big and Medium cities, current challenges of migrants; (lack employment opportunity, housing, working places, living housing and cost of living or rise in food and consumer goods price). Conversely, the age of migrants becomes visible to have negatively related to unemployment and they are still statistically significant. Finally, variables positively related to be underemployed and statistically significant variables are temporary migration, current all challenges are negatively associated with the probability of being underemployed migrants. Then, the study mainly proposes generating more employment opportunities through self-employment and wage employment opportunities and assisting of migrants’ access to business licenses, access to social services, working places and housing security tenure, to strengthen the bargaining power of youth migrants to secure their job opportunities and legally start their business so as to reduce adverse employment challenges, pull and push factors of internal migrants in both urban and rural areas.