Determinants of migration and remittances in rural Nigeria

Olowa, Olatomide Waheed

doi:10.5897/jdae11.053

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“…In the literature, migration is conceptualized as a life-cycle event (Görlich and Trebesch 2008;Olowa and Awoyemi 2012): Households headed by older persons are expected to have fewer dependent children but more family members in the working age group. Thus, the household head's age was reported as having a positive effect on migration in Guatemala (Adams 2006).…”

Section: Results Contributing To the Discussion Of Ambiguous Migratiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bilsborrow (2002) also emphasises that places' different economic opportunities and the contextual factors of households influence peoples' migration decisions. As location seems to matter, and as only a few previous migration studies have included the contextual factor of household location (Taylor 1999;Ezra and Kiros 2001;Olowa and Awoyemi 2012), future empirical migration studies might be well advised to extend the NELM framework with locational meso-level variables in a multilevel analysis, particularly if they include short-term migration.…”

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“…The NELM framework does not establish any explicit connection between household migration decisions and locational factors, which were identified as a relevant explanatory variable in the explorative study phase. Comparative locational (dis-) advantages have been considered by empirical application of the expectancy value theory and/or the theory of planned behaviour (De Jong 2000; Kley 2011) and in previous studies conducted in Ethiopia and elsewhere (see Taylor 1999;Ezra and Kiros 2001;Bilsborrow 2002;Olowa and Awoyemi 2012). Figure 1 shows that we used livelihood zones 3 (as defined in a joint project of USAID and the Ethiopian Government in 2007) as a proxy for location characteristics such as market access and agroecology.…”

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Determinants of rural out-migration in Ethiopia: Who stays and who goes?

Tegegne¹,

Penker²

2016

DemRes

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Lack of knowledge on migration in rural Ethiopia 2 Challenges of migration studies 3 Conceptual framework and exploratory analysis 4 Methodology 4.1 Study sites and sampling 4.2 Method of data collection 4.3 Methods of data analysis 5 Characteristics of the sampled households and migrants 5.1 Comparison of the sample with rural Ethiopia and the Amhara region 5.2 Characteristics of the migrants 6 Determinants of migration decisions 6.1 Binary logistic regression explaining the propensity to migrate 6.2 Determinants explaining the propensity for short-term and longterm migration choices 7 Discussion 7.1 Discussion of the research design 7.2 Results confirming prior research 7.3 Results contributing to the discussion of ambiguous migration determinants 7.4 Results supplementing the NELM framework 8 Conclusion 9 Acknowledgements References

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Determinants of rural out-migration in Ethiopia: Who stays and who goes?

Tegegne¹,

Penker²

2016

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“…() found that households with more land are likely to be more capital‐constrained in crop production, thus more likely to seek income from migration in North China. Olowa and Awoyemi's () findings showed that land size is positively and significantly associated with internal migration in Nigeria, with a 1 ha increase of land size increasing the probability of internal migration by 0.32%.…”

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Farm Size, Land Reallocation, and Labour Migration in Rural China

Yan

Bauer

Huo

2013

Population Space and Place

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This paper explores the factors that determine a farm household migration decision, particularly the influence of the current land tenure system in China. Land endowment per labour is used to measure farm size. Reallocation times and expectation of future land reallocation are used to measure the land reallocation situation. Data used in this study are from a farm household survey conducted in 2009 in 17 villages in Northeast Henan province. By using a Heckman two‐stage model, the empirical findings show that there are some differences in terms of the magnitude and direction of determinants significantly affecting the decision to migrate and its duration. China's land tenure arrangements are based on egalitarian land distribution and frequent reallocation stimulates rather than deters migration in the case of land rental market imperfections. However, it is the main reason for the unique temporary and individual migration patterns. With the development of land rental markets, the importance of land transferability becomes prominent. Policies aimed at improving land security and promoting land transfer will also benefit rural labour emigration. Other factors that also have significant influence on labour migration are household size, number of household dependents, household assets and whether a household has a land‐use contract. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Brixiova and Ncube (2013). However, to our knowledge, no research work has tried answering this question except for the work of Olowa and Awoyemi (2012), that sort answers in terms of rural migration and remittances in Nigeria. This gap is the motivation for this study.…”

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Macroeconomic Drivers of Remittances and the Implication for Economic Growth in Nigeria

Atan¹,

Esu

2018

AEF

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Remittances have been one of the officially recorded sources of international flows, especially, to developing economies like Nigeria, hence the need to encourage its consistent flow as well as defining ways and means of redeploying it for an improved economy. Following this line of reasoning, an attempt was made in this study, to see whether the macroeconomic environment in the domestic economy can actually play a role in stimulating international remittance inflows. To achieve this, average remittance data were tested against that of per capita income, real exchange rate, trade openness, government expenditure, inflation rate and the demographic variable (population density), and the data were all from secondary sources (WDI and CBN Bulletin, 2017/2018). Drawing from the type of gravity model suggested by Greenwood (1975) and Borjas (1987Borjas ( , 1989) -as modified -for analyzing international migration, and exploring the two approaches to international remittances analysis -altruistic and investment approaches, the data were modelled and estimated. Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) was employed in estimating the model. The results indicated that the macroeconomic environment of Nigeria, plays a significant role in stimulating international remittance flows. Based on the outcome of this study, it is suggested that for consistent flow of remittances into Nigeria, especially for investment purposes, a conducive macroeconomic environment should be created and maintained, as this will not only stimulate inflows, but will aid effective redeployment of same for output growth.

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Determinants of migration and remittances in rural Nigeria

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Determinants of rural out-migration in Ethiopia: Who stays and who goes?

Determinants of rural out-migration in Ethiopia: Who stays and who goes?

Farm Size, Land Reallocation, and Labour Migration in Rural China

Macroeconomic Drivers of Remittances and the Implication for Economic Growth in Nigeria

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