Paper short abstract:

The paper focuses on the influence of migration on youth segment of labour market in Tajikistan, taking into account education and COVID19. The paper is based on mixed-method approach data, including retrospective quantitative data on 2000 (2017), data of 6000 (2022), and qualitative data (2019).

Paper long abstract:

The paper focuses on the influence of migration on youth segment of labour market in Tajikistan. Particularly, it investigates how migration experience impacts on employment status of youth, who returned home, and what is the role of education for returned migrants to join labour market. According to some researches, when a migrant returns home, he gets better jobs than before migration, using obtained skills and capital. I argue that migration experience has negative effect on employment status in home country for returned migrants, they get worse jobs than they had had before migration. Returned migrants are more likely to be unemployed or become inactive – to fall into the NEET-group (Not in education, employment or training) than youth who has no migration history. Also, due to COVID19 the effect of migration experience may differ. So, we will investigate effect of migration to youth unemployment and it’s changing over COVID19 period. To estimate the effect of migration we grouped youth into migrants and control group (youth without migration experience). This paper is based on data collected using mixed-method approach, including retrospective quantitative data on 2000 youth of Tajikistan from 2017, and data from qualitative research with NEET-youth in Tajikistan from 2019. For the period after COVID19 we will use data that is being collected among 6000 youth by End of April 2022.