The Effect of Intra-African Immigration on Productivity in Africa

dc.contributor.authorGnimassoun, Blaise
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-31T08:20:39Z
dc.date.available2023-08-31T08:20:39Z
dc.date.issued2023-08
dc.description.abstractContrary 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.urihttps://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/handle/123456789/3640
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAfrican Economic Research Consortium
dc.relation.ispartofseries978-9966-61-238-0
dc.titleThe Effect of Intra-African Immigration on Productivity in Africa
dc.typeArticle
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