Markets and the Spatial Distribution of African Migrants in Selected OECD Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22010105 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Omololá Olarinde (0000-0003-3548-4490, Elizade University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Migration and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2163-2324 • E-ISSN: 2163-2332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/21632324251352298 |
| OpenAlex | W4412584294 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article examines the evolving location patterns of African migrants to answer the question: What determines African migrants’ destination choices? Analysing regular migration between 10 African source countries and 10 OECD destinations from 1990 to 2017, it highlights how barriers such as distance, policy restrictions and historical ties shape migration distribution. Findings reveal that while productivity drives spatial concentration for countries such as Egypt, migration costs and location-specific effects are critical in perpetuating migration patterns. The article distinguishes between traditional and emerging destinations, using advances in modelling increasing returns to scale to capture the geographical concentration and dispersion of African migrants
Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Spatial distribution · Global trade and economics · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
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Where on Earth is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960–2000
The structure of simple 'New Economic Geography' models (or, On identical twins)
Do migrants follow market potentials? An estimation of a new economic geography model
Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
The networked character of migration and transnationalism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |