Seminar Abstract

【Apartheid and Motivations of Migrant Workers】

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Speaker: 赤林 英夫

Affiliation: 慶応義塾大学 経済学部

Date and Time: 2002.11.28 (Thu), 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Place: 3F1136

Chair: 江口 匡太

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Abstract: 

We investigate into the motivations of temporary migration under the
influence of the apartheid in South Africa. We develop a theoretical
model in which a household maximizes its expected utility through the
allocation of family members to different locations for employment. The
theoretical implications are adapted to the conditional logit
specification of location choice for empirical analyses. Using the South
African household data collected from 1995 to 1999, we estimated the
determinants of destination of black migrant workers. Our empirical
results are mostly consistent with the theoretical prediction, and we
find some evidence that the relative importance of income risk
diversification motive has increased with the end of apartheid.