Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective

Marie Albertine Djuikom

No wp-2018-45, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African countries, this could lead to a negative effect on the rural economy. The availability of labour and the cost of hiring people to work on farms is an example of a problem that farmers may face in the presence of a critical level of labour migration.

Keywords: Labour migration; Agriculture; Bayesian treatment analysis; Instrumental variable; Rural; Bayesian estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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