Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?

The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in developing countries. Such households face the challenge of maintaining or improving their livelihoods in the presence of capital market imperfections, vulnerability to climate and mac...

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Main Authors: de Brauw, Alan, Mueller, Valerie
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154283
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description The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in developing countries. Such households face the challenge of maintaining or improving their livelihoods in the presence of capital market imperfections, vulnerability to climate and macroeconomic shocks, and inaccessibility to credit. For many such households, labor is their main productive asset. Access to opportunities in distant labor markets through migration can increase the earning potential of members of such households (Harris and Todaro 1970). Furthermore, if migration takes place as part of a household decision making strategy, it can help the source household reduce income risks (Stark 1991, Azam and Gubert 2006), at the very least, and potentially improve the well being of the entire household (de Brauw and Harigaya 2007). From the former perspective, households can diversify income risk preemptively by allocating labor spatially to areas where risks to income are not correlated with rural income shocks (Rosenzweig and Stark 1989).
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spelling CGSpace1542832025-11-06T07:14:53Z Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia? de Brauw, Alan Mueller, Valerie agriculture land rights migration The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in developing countries. Such households face the challenge of maintaining or improving their livelihoods in the presence of capital market imperfections, vulnerability to climate and macroeconomic shocks, and inaccessibility to credit. For many such households, labor is their main productive asset. Access to opportunities in distant labor markets through migration can increase the earning potential of members of such households (Harris and Todaro 1970). Furthermore, if migration takes place as part of a household decision making strategy, it can help the source household reduce income risks (Stark 1991, Azam and Gubert 2006), at the very least, and potentially improve the well being of the entire household (de Brauw and Harigaya 2007). From the former perspective, households can diversify income risk preemptively by allocating labor spatially to areas where risks to income are not correlated with rural income shocks (Rosenzweig and Stark 1989). 2011 2024-10-01T14:00:37Z 2024-10-01T14:00:37Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154283 en https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejs007 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute de Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie. 2011. Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia? ESSP II Working Paper 18. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154283
spellingShingle agriculture
land rights
migration
de Brauw, Alan
Mueller, Valerie
Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?
title Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?
title_full Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?
title_fullStr Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?
title_full_unstemmed Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?
title_short Do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in Ethiopia?
title_sort do limitations in land rights transferability influence mobility rates in ethiopia
topic agriculture
land rights
migration
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154283
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