The Working Age Sex Ratio and Job Search Migration in Kenya

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Title:	The Working Age Sex Ratio and Job Search Migration in Kenya
Author:	Wasow, Bernard
Year:	1981
Periodical:	Journal of Developing Areas
Volume:	15
Issue:	3
Period:	April
Pages:	435-444
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	labour migration Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment Women's Issues
External links:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/4190910 http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311632603
Abstract:	This paper employs a relatively new index of the impact of migration on a district: the 'working age sex ratio' (the ratio of men to women in the age range 20-40) is taken to measure 'cash' (job search) migration. Examining 22 main smallholder districts of Kenya, containing over 85 percent of the population living outside the urban centers of Nairobi and Mombasa, focus of this study is on cash migration and on the working age sex ratio as a measure of the net impact of cash migration on a district. Main hypothesis is that the systematic variation in the working age sex ratio depends on the costs and benefits of cash migration. The analysis offers another tool for the study of job migration, along with a number of specific insights into this process in Kenya. Fig., notes, tab.