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5. Unemployment and Urbanization
One of the major consequences of the rapid urbanization process has been the burgeoning supply of job seekers in both the modern (formal) and traditional (informal) sectors of the urban economy (Todaro, 1997). Rural-urban migration has a significant impact on unemployment levels of the destination cities (Aworemi Joshua et al, 2011). Between 1998 and 1999, urban unemployment rose from 5.5% to 6.5%, a rate higher than the national unemployment which increased from 3.9% to 4.7% during the same period (USAID, 2002). Unemployment is very high in all urban centres in Nigeria, and the main reason is because of the high population of migrants from the rural areas in Nigeria and few other national migrants from other African countries that come to seek for jobs that are not that available in the urban centres. As the

American Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society Issue 2, Vol. 1 Jan- Dec 2013 Available online on http://www.rspublication.com/ajscs/ajsas.html ISSN 2319 – Page 88 unemployment rate is increasing in the urban centres, it is reducing in countryside because of the homogenous type of activity in the countryside which is agriculture.

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