This Egyptian study examined the impact of rural to urban and urban to urban migration on the occupational mobility of male migrants, 15 years of age or older. Data for the study was derived from the 1979 migration survey of a sample of 58,000 rural and urban households, conducted by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. Data on nonmigrants at the migrants' place of origin was derived from 1976 census materials. Only male migrants who were employed both at their place of origin and destination were included in the analysis. Percent distributions were used to analyze the data. Analysis of the migrants' demogrpahic characteristics indicated that the migrants tended to be relatively young and that the rural to urban migrants were younger than the urban to urban migrants. Appoximately 2/5 of the migrants were single at the time of migration, and the marital status of both migrant groups was similar. The migrants tended to be more educated than the nonmigrants at the migrants' place of origin, and there was a tendency for the migrants to increase their educational status after arriving in their place of destination. The migrants experienced more upward occupational mobility than nonmigrant males at the migrants' place of origin. Although the urban to urban migrants tended to have higher occupational status both at the place of origin and destination than rural to urban migrants, rural to urban migrants experienced more upward occupation mobility after migrating than urban to urban migrants. Changes in migrant occupational status after migration were explained primarily by age, educational status, duration of current residence, and a rural to urban backgroud. Following migration, urban to urban migrants achieved greater increases in monthly income than rural to urban migrants. This pattern persisted even when age, education, and duration of residence at the place of destination were controlled. The results of the study are provided in a series of tables.

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