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Title:Migrant Labour and Its Economic Implication to African Agriculture
Author:Okereke, O.
Year:1975
Periodical:Eastern Africa Journal of Rural Development
Volume:8
Issue:1-2
Pages:92-104
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Africa
Subjects:labour migration
Urbanization and Migration
Labor and Employment
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Abstract:This paper attempts a review of the nature of, and the motivation for labour migration and evaluates its economic implications in terms of agricultural production and productivity. Sections: Introduction - The motivating factors (the centrifugal forces) - The operation of centripetal forces - Economic implications of migrant labour - Migrant worker and productivity: the hypothesis of target-income worker - Conclusion. Ref., notes, tables.
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