The Effect of Intra-African Immigration on Productivity in Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Gnimassoun, Blaise | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-31T08:20:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-31T08:20:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Contrary to popular belief, the majority of Africans who migrate stay in Africa. In a context of low trade openness between African countries and high differences in the prices of goods and factors, intra-African immigration could theoretically play an important role. This paper aims to study the impact of intra-African immigration on labour productivity in Africa, as well as its macroeconomic and sectoral components. Empirically, I rely on a panel of 187 countries, including 53 African countries, over the period 1990‒2019, and a gravity-based 2SLS approach to deal with endogeneity. The results show that intra-African immigration has a positive, significant, and robust impact on labour productivity in Africa. This impact is greater than the effect of immigration in a global sample, and essentially passes through the improvement in total factor productivity and capital efficiency. While immigration tends to deteriorate capital productivity in the world sample, intra-African immigration improves capital productivity in Africa. Furthermore, the results reveal that the service sector is the one that benefits from the positive effect of intra-African immigration in Africa. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/handle/123456789/3640 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | African Economic Research Consortium | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 978-9966-61-238-0 | |
| dc.title | The Effect of Intra-African Immigration on Productivity in Africa | |
| dc.type | Article |