People, Land, and Context: Multilevel Determinants of Off‐farm Employment in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper investigates the factors that motivate decisions of settler colonists to engage in off-farm employment (OFE) in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon (NEA). Overall, OFE, as a type of population mobility, may increasingly become a dominant demographic factor in rural frontier regions. Although OFE decisions are primarily a matter of individual choice, factors associated with the farm household and the local community also play key roles in this decision-making. This paper applies a multilevel conceptual framework and uses a multinomial, multilevel statistical model to study OFE in the NEA in 1999 as a result of factors at the individual, farm household, and community levels. The results show important differences between OFE participation choices in personal characteristics, human capital, farm household life cycle, land use, land management, farm environmental conditions, transportation accessibility, community size, and structure of local labor markets. The paper also identifies the effects of policy-relevant variables on choices to engage in OFE in local community, other rural, or urban areas of destination.
Source: Population Space and Place
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1733
Authors: Alisson Flávio Barbieri, William K. Pan
Institutions: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Duke University
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
OpenAlex ID: W1925804710