TY - JOUR
T1 - Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households
AU - Mueller, Valerie
AU - Doss, Cheryl
AU - Quisumbing, Agnes
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Xiaoya Dou and Mekamu Jedir Jamal for excellent research assistance. Our manuscript has benefitted from helpful discussions with Paul Christian and Emily Schmidt. We thank Fantu Bachewe and Bart Minten for sharing the Ethiopian wage data presented in this paper. Finally, this paper has benefitted from the support provided by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and
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PY - 2018/5/4
Y1 - 2018/5/4
N2 - Using panel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, we investigate how youth migration affects household labour, hired labour demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by migrant sex and destination. Labour shortages arise from the migration of a head’s child. However, the migration of the head’s sons produces a greater burden, particularly on female heads/spouses (in Ethiopia) and brothers (in Malawi). Gains from migration in the form of increased total net income justify the increased labour efforts in Ethiopia. Weaker evidence suggests households in Malawi substitute hired for migrant family labour at the expense of total household net income.
AB - Using panel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, we investigate how youth migration affects household labour, hired labour demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by migrant sex and destination. Labour shortages arise from the migration of a head’s child. However, the migration of the head’s sons produces a greater burden, particularly on female heads/spouses (in Ethiopia) and brothers (in Malawi). Gains from migration in the form of increased total net income justify the increased labour efforts in Ethiopia. Weaker evidence suggests households in Malawi substitute hired for migrant family labour at the expense of total household net income.
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U2 - 10.1080/00220388.2018.1430770
DO - 10.1080/00220388.2018.1430770
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042920241
VL - 54
SP - 875
EP - 894
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
SN - 0022-0388
IS - 5
ER -