Barbieri Alisson Flávio, Pan William K
Department of Demography and Center for Regional Development and Planning (CEDEPLAR), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Address: CEDEPLAR/FACE/UFMG, Av. Antonio Carlos 6627, CEP 31270-901, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil.
Duke Global Health Institute and the Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University. Address: Room 227 Trent Hall and A354 LSRC, P.O. Box 90519, Durham, NC 27708 USA.
Popul Space Place. 2013 Sep-Oct;19(5):558-579. doi: 10.1002/psp.1733. Epub 2012 Sep 24.
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.
本文研究了促使厄瓜多尔北部亚马逊地区（NEA）的定居殖民者做出从事非农业就业（OFE）决策的因素。总体而言，作为一种人口流动类型，非农业就业可能会越来越成为农村前沿地区的一个主要人口因素。尽管非农业就业决策主要是个人选择问题，但与农户和当地社区相关的因素在这一决策过程中也起着关键作用。本文应用一个多层次概念框架，并使用多项多层次统计模型来研究1999年NEA地区因个人、农户和社区层面的因素而产生的非农业就业情况。结果表明，在个人特征、人力资本、农户生命周期、土地利用、土地管理、农场环境条件、交通可达性、社区规模以及当地劳动力市场结构等方面，非农业就业参与选择存在重要差异。本文还确定了与政策相关的变量对在当地社区、其他农村或城市目的地从事非农业就业选择的影响。
