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Baseline Research: Local Monitoring of Migration Impact on Youth EmploymentInformation Basis and Methodology

Joint UNECE – UNFPA Workshop on Migration Statistics

26-27 October, 2011 Antalya

Yelda DEVLET KARAPINARIOM Turkey

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Outline of Presentation

• Introductory Remarks on Global Youth, Unemployment and Migration

• IOM and YEM Engagement in Turkey• The Baseline Research

ObjectiveAdministrative processMethodology

• Key Findings

3Global Youth, Unemployment and Migration

• More than one billion youth (1) live in the world today; which accounts for 18% of the world’s population.(2)

• Youth face high unemployment and account for nearly half of the world’s total unemployed.

• They comprise of 25% of the working age population over 15 years of age.

• Globally there are an estimated 33 million migrants under the age of 20 years, which represents approximately 15 per cent of the total migrant population.(3)

• An estimated 11 million of this figure are aged between 15 and 19 years.(4)

• As of July 2011, the youth (15-24 age) unemployment rate in Turkey was 18.3%

(1)UNICEF, Fact Sheet on Children, Adolescents and Migration: Filling the Evidence Gap. November 2010.(2)As above above.(3)IOM uses the UN definition of ‘youth’, as those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years. (4) http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/qanda.htm

4Overview of IOM and YEM Engagement National Level:

Adaptation and implementation of employment policies considering migrant youth

Migration and youth employment aspects included in the National Youth Employment Action Plan (NEAP)

Institutional awareness advanced on migration management

Local Level: Baseline research on migration and youth unemployment nexus

Basic life skills training programme for unemployed migrant youth

Local authorities put specific interventions in place to address the employment and employability issues of young migrants, including young women in Antalya

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Why Antalya

•Antalya is the highest migration receiving city with its nearly 2 million population as of 2011.

•Existence of huge gap between market needs and existing human resources related to youth unemployment.

•Promising stakeholder structure with an operating Turkish Employment Institution.

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The Baseline Research_Objective

• Local monitoring of migration impacts on the labour market and employment through processing and analyzing available national data and field work in Antalya.

i. Understand effects of migration on occupational labour market changes

ii. Identify factors contributing to the persistently high rates of youth unemployment

iii. Analysis of key trends in migration including seasonal, short/long term and international, and their impact on youth, women and labour market in Antalya.

i. Identify available employment opportunities for youth and women.

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The Baseline Research_Administrative Process

• Quantitative PartFocus: individuals registered in the Address Based Population Registration System

• Qualitative PartFocus: individuals (un)registered in the Address Based Population Registration System

Cooperation with Turkish Statistical Institution (TURKSTAT)(2000 Household Survey in Antalya)

Cooperation with a research team of six academics

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Qualitative Part• Research team set up • Secondary analysis of available data and

literature review on youth migration and employment

• Design of qualitative part (about 50 in-depth interviews of youth 15-29 years and 8 focus groups)

• Question guideline for the in-depth interviews and focus groups– Migrants– Women– Unemployed– Casual laborers, etc.

• Stratify survey of stakeholders + identify likely hotspots

• Schedule and transcript of interviews and focus groups

Final Part• Triangulate the data

Quantitative Part• Research design and

sampling• Sample survey

(individual&household)• Address blocs for 2000

households in migration prone areas of Antalya

• Training of interviewers and controllers

• Structured household and individual interviews

• Development of data entry programme

• Encoding of collected data

• Preparation of data sets and tabling

• Reporting

The Baseline Research_Methodology I

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The Quantitative Part• Individual interview

content• Education background• Marital Status• Migration History• Employment History• Perception towards working

life• Response Rate• 1009 interviewed out of 1456

household.• 478 male and 531 female

interviewed between 15-29 age.

• Household interview content

• Household property and consumption level

• Migration and Mobility• Literacy and Education Status• Employment• Response Rate• 1456 household survey filled

(%72.8)• 4511 individuals in the

households interviewed (2201 male and 2310 female)

• 327 household unreachable (%16/4)

• 42 household rejected to have interview (%2.1)

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The Qualitative Part

• In depth interview content• Sex • Age• Education• Marital Status• Employment• Economic Sector• Place migrated from• duration in Antalya in years • 50 in-depth interviews of youth 15-29 years• 8 focus groups

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The Baseline Research_Key Findings

• Factors affecting young people’s work experience in terms of; migration, education, sector, urban integration and benefit from Turkish Employment Agency (Iskur)

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Factor 1:Education

• Primary, secondary and even university graduates do the same kind of work marks that education is unable to fulfill its expected function of providing upward social mobility.

• Socio-economic conditions of the family, place of living, region from and the quality of schools and teachers are determining factors in the professional lives of young people.

• In other words, migrant/ immigrant young people participating in the labor force do not benefit from the advantages of their education.

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Factor 1I:Sectors and Integration• Tourism, agriculture, construction and industrial

sectors are particularly open to young migrants

• These non–industry three-sectors function as an entrance gate to the labor market for migrant youth with low levels of education whereas the inhabitants are not keen to get involved.

• Informal, unsecured working migrants, especially high school graduates working in the tourism sector, consider this work temporary and good only if they are single.

• Temporary work poses barriers against acquiring new skills and experience so does not promise any better career.

• Breaking this cycle requires young people become more skilled through vocational training or being institutionally supported for those who want to establish their own businesses.

Migrants who settled in Antalya and participated in the labor market express feelings and perceptions of marginalization and disintegration which they cannot overcome.

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Turkish Employment Institution

• The relations of migrants with İşkur have to be examined in the context of the use of opportunities offered in Antalya.

• The skills and vocational training courses of İşkur are especially found to be important and essential for young people who seek sustainability in their jobs or who want to have a family and to move to adulthood.

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Thank you…

Yelda DEVLET KARAPINARdevlety@iom.int

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