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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa

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Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people than a more distant town following the removal of mobility restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of population. In par...

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University of Oxford Publisher's website
Series:
Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
Publication date:
2016-07-28
Paper number:
800
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1143592
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pubs:1143592
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2020-12-15

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