Journal Article

New perspective on youth migration

Heckert, Jessica

2015

Overview

This study investigates internal migration among the Haitian youth, aged 10-24. The study compares characteristics of youth who migrate with education and labor motives and determines characteristics associated with family financial support to youth migrants. The data are from the 2009 Haiti Youth Survey. Discrete-time event history analysis is used to model characteristics associated with education and labor migration. A two-stage Heckman probit model is used to determine characteristics associated with family financial support for two different samples of youth migrants. Both education and labor migration become more common with increasing age. Education migration is more common among youth born outside the capital and those first enrolled in school on time. Labor migration differs little by region of birth, and is associated with late school enrollment. Moreover, rather than sending remittances home, many youth migrants continue to receive financial support from their parents. Provision of financial support to youth migrants is associated with current school enrollment.

• Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,Max Planck Institut für Demografische Forschung
• Subject: Age / Age groups / Agricultural production / Capital / Economic aspects / Education / Educational attainment / Enrollments / Event history analysis / Families & family life / family demography / Financial support / Haiti / Households / Internal migration / International migration / Labor market / Labor migration / Migrants / Migration / Modeling / Parents / Parents & parenting / Payments / Population / Remittances / Research Article / Scholarships & fellowships / Schools / Social aspects / Sugarcane / Teenage immigrants / Tourism / transition to adulthood / Transnationalism / wealth flows / Young adults / Youth