Calderón-Mejia and her coauthor, Ana María Ibáñez Londoño from the Universidad de los Andes, found that in Colombia internally displaced persons (IDPs) typically moved to escape armed conflict--leaving violent, rural parts of the country for safer, urban areas--rather than to find better jobs, schools, or other opportunities. "What's going on here is that you see an increase in the speed of traditional rural-urban migration," compared to other developing countries in Latin America. Nearly 8 percent of the Colombian workforce migrates out of necessity, not choice.
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