ABSTRACT
Migration inevitably requires a measure of adjustment on the part of the individual migrant: physical, social, economic and psychological. Employees of collectives are usually to be found in small companies, enterprises, shops and factories that are located in the more traditional sectors of the economy and characterized by labor-intensive work practices. Income increase is inversely related to age, which supports the human capital hypothesis that older people have less to gain, economically, from migrating than do younger people. The central role of employment in the adjustment of migrants in urban areas has been noted many times. While migration was for some of the population in the Survey a prelude to entering the tiny self-employment sector, the main work force shift among the migrants was into employment by the State and out of employment by collectives. Migration was associated with an increase in the proportion in State employment among both urban-to-urban and rural-to-urban migrants.
