Search Results - subject:"nonfarm employment"

Weather Risk and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in India

Ito, Takahiro; Kurosaki, Takashi - 2006

As one of the measures to smooth income, this paper focuses on the diversification of labor allocation across activities. A key feature of this paper is that it pays particular attention to differences in the covariance between weather risk and agricultural wages and between weather risk and...

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RURAL NONFARM EMPLOYMENT UNDER TRADE REFORM EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAM, 1993-2002

Pham, Hung T - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

rapidly and became an important source of employment and income for rural households. This growing nonfarm employment was … developing world. This paper examines the potential effect of the trade policy reform on nonfarm employment in rural Vietnam … rural nonfarm employment. While a more liberalized agricultural sector encourages nonfarm diversification, a lower …

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Weather Risk and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in India

Ito, Takahiro; Kurosaki, Takashi - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

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Chapter 67 Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Southeast Asia

Estudillo, Jonna P.; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3435-3468). 2010

sources away from farm to nonfarm activities. Increased participation in nonfarm employment has been more pronounced among the …

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Income distribution in rice-growing villages during the post-Green Revolution periods: the Philippine case, 1985 and 1998

Estudillo, Jonna P.; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 25 (2001) 1

This paper aims to examine changes in household income sources and its impact on household income distribution in the post-Green Revolution periods in 1985 and 1998 in the rural Philippines. We found that there has been a structural shift of household income away from farm in favor of nonfarm...

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Rural Income and Employment Diversity in India During 1994 and 2005

Shariff, Abusaleh - In: Journal of Developing Societies 25 (2009) 2, pp. 165-208

of recent economic growth in India. The economic linkage between the Rural Nonfarm Employment (RNFE) and rural wage rates …

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Rural Nonfarm Employment Under Trade Reform Evidence From Vietnam, 1993-2002

Pham, T.H. - Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex - 2007

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Regional growth linkages in the era of liberalization: a critique of the new agrarian optimism.

G, Hart - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993

Questions the argument that increased income from agricultural growth will stimulate non-agricultural activities and non-farm employment in rural regions. Taking the diversification of rural regions in China as an example, shows that collective forms of ownership can combine with market discipline.

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Nonfarm Prospects Under Agricultural Liberalization

Kilkenny, Maureen - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics Research (1991) 3

What does the United States stand to gain from liberalizing international trade in agriculture? This article estimates potential dollar gains and simulates the relocation of workers out of agriculture and into nonfarm activities. Different nonfarm sectors would expand under three cases of...

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Formation of rural labour markets: an analysis with special reference to Asia.

K, Bharadwaj - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989

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