Deciding to settle: rural-rural migration and agricultural labor supply in southwest Nigeria

M. U. Agbonlahor () and D. O. A. Phillip
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M. U. Agbonlahor: Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria
D. O. A. Phillip: Nassarawa State University, Nigeria

Journal of Developing Areas, 2015, vol. 49, issue 1, 267-284

Abstract: The study investigates the factors that influence rural migrants’ decision to settle in rural communities as farm laborers in southern Nigeria. This is against the backdrop of the critical roles play by the migrants infilling the farm labor supply deficit; which is occasioned by high rural-urban drift (annual estimate is 37%). Data for the study were obtained from a sample survey of 766 rural migrants drawn from 81 communities in Southwestern Nigeria via a multistage sampling technique.The result shows that the migrants were from within and outside the country. About 76% of the migrants worked as farm laborers in the receiving community while wage employment accounted for about 80% of total employment. The logistic regression estimates reveal that, among other factors, previous migration efforts, household’ and community’ socio-economic and development statuses reduce the odds in favor of migrants’ willingness to settle in the receiving rural community.

Keywords: Decision to settle; rural migrants; logistic regression; farm labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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