The Household Level Determinants in the Choice and Level of Migration

Chakraborty, Debasis; Kuri, Pravat Kumar

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“…As such, poorer households would be less likely have out-migrants. These findings are consistent with research outcomes in India [46], Ethiopia [33], and Bangladesh [34], which showed that the households sending migrants were those with relatively higher income levels.…”

Section: Household-level Social and Economic Factorssupporting

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Who and Why? Understanding Rural Out-Migration in Uganda

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Rural–urban migration in developing countries is considered to be a key process for sustainable development in the coming decades. On the one hand, rural–urban migration can contribute to the socioeconomic development of a country. On the other hand, it also leads to labor transfer, brain-drain in rural areas, and overcrowded cities where planning is lagging behind. In order to get a better insight into the mechanisms of rural–urban migration in developing countries, this paper analyzes motivations for rural–urban migration from the perspective of rural households in Uganda. A total of 1015 rural households located in southwestern Uganda were surveyed in 2019. A total of 48 percent of these households reported having at least one out-migrant. By means of logistic regression modeling, the likelihood for rural out-migration was assessed using household- and community-level socioeconomic characteristics as predictors. The results show that most out-migrants are from relatively wealthy households with a higher-than-average education level. Typically, these households are located in villages that are well connected with urban centers. Poor households in remote locations send significantly fewer migrants because of their limited access to migration information and poor transport networks. From these findings, the following policy recommendations are made: Firstly, efforts should be made to extend basic social services, including quality education, towards rural areas. Secondly, in order to reduce socially disruptive long-distance migration and the eventual overcrowding and sprawls of major cities, government investments should be oriented towards the upgrading of secondary towns, which can offer rural out-migrants rewarding employment and business opportunities.

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Section: Household-level Social and Economic Factorssupporting

confidence: 91%

Who and Why? Understanding Rural Out-Migration in Uganda

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“…Meanwhile, the pull factor was the number of job opportunities within urban areas. This result confirmed earlier findings, in which one of the migration decisions was determined by household income (Chakraborty & Kuri, 2017). However, the migration rate from this village was minimal, whereby the excess labor due to land loss could still be accommodated through existing opportunities in the village, such as jobs in the off-farm and nonfarm sectors.…”

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Land-Use Changes and Food Insecurity around Oil Palm Plantations: Evidence at the Village Level

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Oktoriana

2021

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Land conversion of oil palm plantations in the villages of West Kalimantan has caused drastic changes in how farmers fulfill their basic household needs. One such change affects farmers’ food security. This study aimed to explain the deterioration of food self-sufficiency at the village level due to the pressure to use residual pockets of land for oil palm cultivation. The collected evidence was analyzed through an assessment of their residual pockets of land in a single village. A case study survey collected data from July until September 2019 in the village of Batu Barat, district of Kayong Utara, West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. The study utilized 70 family heads as samples for interviews. They were selected through a simple random sampling technique. We used descriptive quantitative and qualitative methods in our investigation. The results confirmed that the current utilization of the village’s residual lands actually entails even greater food insecurity for farmers, as exemplified by a sizeable decrease in rice fields to merely an estimated 0.59 hectares per household. By contrast, the land utilized by independent smallholders of oil palm cultivation increased to an average of approximately 0.67 hectares per household. This land conversion not only exacerbated food-farmland availability but

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“…Hence, their labour participation level will increase. Improvement of the level of health in married couples can effectively increase their family income (Dustmann and Okatenko, 2014; Chakraborty and Kuri, 2017). Therefore, the effect of equalisation of basic public health and medical services on work income is stronger for married internal migrants.…”

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Labour market impacts of the equalisation of basic public health and medical services on internal migrants in China

2023

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Using China Migrants Dynamic Survey Project data from 2011 to 2017, this study investigates the labour market impacts of equalisation of basic public health and medical services on internal migrants by the difference‐in‐differences approach in China. The results reveal that equalisation of basic public health and medical services increases the probability of labour participation and the income of internal migrants. Male migrants, married migrants and migrants who cover long migration distances have a much stronger positive response to the equalisation of basic public health and medical services in terms of likelihood of labour participation and level of income. Mechanism checks indicate that the increases in labour participation and income of internal migrants are enhanced by the improvement of medical service utilisation, human capital and social integration after the implementation of the equalisation of basic public health and medical services.

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The Household Level Determinants in the Choice and Level of Migration

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Who and Why? Understanding Rural Out-Migration in Uganda

Who and Why? Understanding Rural Out-Migration in Uganda

Land-Use Changes and Food Insecurity around Oil Palm Plantations: Evidence at the Village Level

Labour market impacts of the equalisation of basic public health and medical services on internal migrants in China

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