The significance of labour migration for the economic welfare of Ghana and the Voltaic Republic

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Title:	The significance of labour migration for the economic welfare of Ghana and the Voltaic Republic
Author:	Panofsky, H.E.
Year:	1960
Periodical:	Bulletin - Inter-African Labour Institute
Volume:	7
Issue:	4
Pages:	30-45
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Ghana Burkina Faso
Subject:	labour migration
Abstract:	This note, based on the author's 'the significance of labour migration for the economic growth of Ghana', refers to labour migration as the cyclical movement of wage earners from areas of subsistence agriculture to areas of wage employment, both in the agricultural and industrial sectors of the economy. Migration to Ghana and the Ivory Coast provides a safety valve for the densely settled Mossi lands, and besides might have enabled men to carry the revolutionary spirit of a free Ghana to the former French colony of Upper Volta. The movement to and from the south can be expected to last as long as the migrants need to retain tien, the employer failing to provide the necessary incentives for ultimate settlement. Biographical footnotes; traduction française.