The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten_US
cg.contributor.donorDepartment for International Development, United Kingdomen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierKatrina Kosec: 0000-0002-5126-5215en_US
cg.creator.identifierHosaena Ghebru: 0000-0002-6541-5907en_US
cg.creator.identifierBrian Holtemeyer: 0000-0002-4064-5570en_US
cg.creator.identifierValerie Mueller: 0000-0003-1246-2141en_US
cg.creator.identifierEmily Schmidt: 0000-0003-0109-7687en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Programen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.number104en_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopiaen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorKosec, Katrinaen_US
dc.contributor.authorGhebru, Hosaenaen_US
dc.contributor.authorHoltemeyer, Brianen_US
dc.contributor.authorMueller, Valerieen_US
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Emilyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:24:36Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:24:36Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148410en_US
dc.titleThe effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopiaen_US
dcterms.abstractIn Ethiopia, there are two binding forces (push and pull) that deserve attention when it comes to youth occupational and spatial mobility choices and the national land use and transfer policy. On the one hand, the fact that the land rental market in Ethiopia is supply constrained due to market and policy distortions marginalizes youth and serves as a push factor leading them to look elsewhere for a livelihood strategy. On the other hand, the regulatory conditions and restrictions attached to land use and inheritance rights may serve as a pull factor and force youth to be tied to the rural and/or farming sector. Our study thus aims to explore how youth land access (both inheritance and market-based) affects their migration and employment decisions. We explore this question in the context of rural Ethiopia using panel data from 2010 and 2014. We find that larger expected land inheritances significantly lower the likelihood of long-distance permanent migration and of permanent migration to urban areas during this time. Inheriting more land is also associated with a significantly higher likelihood of employment in agriculture and a lower likelihood of employment in the nonagricultural sector. Conversely, the decision to attend school is unaffected. These results appear to be most heavily driven by males and by the older half of our youth sample. We also find several mediating factors matter. Land inheritance plays a much more pronounced role in predicting rural-to-urban permanent migration and nonagricultural-sector employment in areas with less vibrant land markets and in relatively remote areas (those far from major urban centers). Overall, the results reaffirm the notion that push factors dominate pull factors in dictating occupational and migration decisions in Ethiopia and highlight youth preferences to use migration or non-agricultural employment as a last resort after exhausting other means of accessing land, such as temporary land rental.en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKosec, Katrina; Ghebru, Hosaena; Holtemeyer, Brian; Mueller, Valerie; and Schmidt, Emily. 2017. The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia. Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI).en_US
dcterms.extent26 pagesen_US
dcterms.isPartOfESSP Working Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2017en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Development Research Instituteen_US
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dcterms.relationhttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/124860en_US
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dcterms.relationhttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/127808en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/127841en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/130495en_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/131116en_US
dcterms.subjectland inheritance rightsen_US
dcterms.subjectemploymenten_US
dcterms.subjectyouthen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectmigrationen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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