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Title: Intersectoral labor mobility and deforestation in Ghana.
Authors: Owusu, Victor1, Fosu, K. Yerfi2, Burger, Kees3
Source: Environment & Development Economics. Dec2012, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p741-762. 22p.
Subject Terms: *Deforestation, *Irrigation, *Rainfall, Labor mobility, Agricultural wages, Farm income, Cointegration
Geographic Terms: Ghana
Abstract: This paper quantifies the effects of the determinants of intersectoral labor mobility and the effect of intersectoral labor mobility on deforestation in Ghana over the period 1970–2008. A cointegration and error correction modeling approach is employed. The empirical results show that labor mobility from the agricultural to the non-agricultural sector exerts negative effects on deforestation in Ghana in the long run and short run. Relative agricultural income exerts a significant negative effect on intersectoral labor mobility in the long run. Deforestation is influenced positively by population pressure, the price of fertilizer and rainfall, whereas access to irrigation infrastructure exerts a negative effect in the long run. In the short run, real producer prices of cocoa and maize exert significant positive effects on deforestation whereas access to irrigation infrastructure exerts a negative significant effect. Fruitful policy recommendations based on the empirical magnitudes and directions of these effects are made in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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