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Determinants of rural households' livelihood diversification strategies : in the case of north Wollo zone, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Kassegn, Andualem; Abdinasir, Umer - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-23

Diversifying rural livelihoods plays a significant role for rain feed-dependent economy of the rural households like in Ethiopia. Hence the objective of the study was to investigate the determinants of rural households' livelihood diversification strategies choice in north wollo zone of...

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The effect of weather shocks on women’s labor supply and the income of women-headed households in Lesotho

Moshoeshoe, Ramaele; Nchake, Mamello A.; Tiberti, Luca - 2021

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Can Non-Agricultural Employment Reduce Rural Poverty? Evidence from Mexico

Araujo, Caridad - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 41 (2004) 124, pp. 383-399

This paper explores the role of the local context on the effectiveness of policy interventions in reducing poverty through non-agricultural rural employment (NARE). NARE is negatively associated to poverty in Mexico. Manufacturing employment is more pover

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Factors Affecting the Development of Land Rental Markets in China A Case Study for Puding County, Guizhou Province

Tu, Qin; Heerink, Nico; Xing, Li - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The development of land rental markets can enhance agricultural productivity and equity by facilitating transfers of land to more productive farmers and facilitating the participation in the non-farm economy of less productive farmers. In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the...

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Determinants of off-farm participation decision of farm households in Ethiopia

Beyne, A.D. - In: Agrekon 47 (2008) 1

This study analyses the determinants of off-farm work participation decisions of farm households in Ethiopia. A bivariate probit model is applied to account for the simultaneity of participation decisions of both male and female members of farm households. The results of the analysis show that...

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Microfinance, self-employment, and entrepreneurs in less developed areas of rural China

Jia, Xiangping; Xiang, Cheng; Huang, Jikun - In: China Economic Review 27 (2013) C, pp. 94-103

China is experiencing a transformation, as vast numbers of rural laborers move toward off-farm employment. In such a transformation, the role of credit is unclear. The overall goal of this study is to examine the impact of access to credit by rural households on employment decision-making by...

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Activity Choice in Rural Non-farm Employment (RNFE): Survival versus accumulative strategy

Bezu, Sosina; Barrett, Christopher B.; Holden, Stein - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2014

This paper examines the nonfarm employment choice of individuals using panel data from Ethiopia that covers the period 1994-2004. Non-farm activities that require more resources in the form of skill or capital yield higher returns but employ proportionately fewer people. Women have lower...

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Activity Choice in Rural Non-farm Employment (RNFE): Survival versus accumulative strategy

Bezu, Sosina; Barrett, Christopher B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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Health Care Reform and Farm Womenâ€™s Off-Farm Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Taiwan

Liao, Pei-An; Taylor, J. Edward - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 35 (2010) 2

Do non-wage fringe benefits affect womenâ€™s off-farm work decisions? We test the impact of the 1995 introduction of universal National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan on off-farm labor force participation (LFP) among farm wives. Our results, based on a difference-in- differences approach,...

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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …

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