The Off-Farm Labor Supply of Farmers: The Case of the Chiang Mai Valley of Thailand

Rief, Yaffa Machnes; Cochrane, Susan

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“…(1992) note, both theory and empirical evidence are ambiguous about the effects of land and non‐land assets on household labour diversification behaviour. A negative impact of landholdings on participation in non‐farm employment has been reported in Thailand (Rief and Cochrane 1990) and Vietnam (van de Walle and Cratty 2004), while a positive impact has been found in Burkina Faso (Reardon et al. 1992) and India (Lanjouw and Shariff 2002).…”

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“…Although one can find several studies exploring participation in rural, non‐farm activities in other Southeast Asian countries (for example, Rief and Cochrane 1990; van de Walle and Cratty 2004), there is a lack of evidence on the non‐farm sector in rural Cambodia. The only study that we are aware of is that conducted by Acharya et al.…”

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Non‐farm employment and incomes in rural Cambodia

Rahut

Micevska

2012

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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Rural households in Cambodia derive income from various sources. On average, non-farm income accounts for more than 60 per cent of total household income. However, the average masks the substantial heterogeneity of non-farm employment. We account for this heterogeneity and find significant differences in non-farm participation and incomes across segments of the income distribution. The poor and the less well-educated participate less in the non-farm sector, and when they do work in the non-farm sector, they work in low-paid jobs and earn lower incomes. Accounting for endogeneity and sample selection issues, we conduct an empirical enquiry of the determinants of participation in non-farm activities and of non-farm incomes. As expected, we find that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative non-farm employment. Interestingly, we do not find evidence that women, ethnic minorities, or the land-poor are disadvantaged in access to the non-farm sector. Geographical location plays a role in access to and income from non-farm employment, indicating the importance of local context.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Non‐farm employment and incomes in rural Cambodia

Rahut

Micevska

2012

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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“…For example, the evidence on the role of gender has been mixed: while some studies find that men dominate the non‐farm sector (Fafchamps and Quisumbing 2003), other researchers observe that women are more likely to be active in the non‐farm sector than men (Lanjouw 2001). The empirical evidence on the direction of the impact of landholdings on non‐farm diversification is also mixed: a negative impact of land is observed in Thailand (Rief and Cochrane 1990) and Vietnam (van de Walle and Cratty 2004), while a positive impact is found for Burkina Faso (Reardon et al. 1992) and India (Lanjouw and Shariff 2002).…”

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Livelihood diversification strategies in the Himalayas*

Rahut

Micevska²

2012

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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This article examines livelihood diversification strategies of rural households using survey data from the Himalayas. We present and explore an analytical framework that yields different activity choices as optimal solutions to a simple utility maximization problem. By classifying the range of activities of rural households into a few distinct categories based on their profitability and by considering portfolios of farm and nonfarm activities, we provide novel insights into diversification behaviour of rural households. The evidence shows that while the poor are mainly agricultural labourers and work in the low-return non-farm sector, the better-off diversify in high-return nonfarm activities. As expected, we find strong evidence that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative non-farm employment. A somewhat less intuitive finding is that larger household size is associated with higher probability of diversification into the high-return non-farm sector. The finding that the farm size is not a constraint to diversification in lucrative non-farm employment is also surprising. Geographical location plays a role in diversification behaviour of rural households indicating the importance of local context.

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“…12 12 A negative impact of land is reported for India's semi‐arid tropics (Walker and Ryan, 1990), Nigeria and Sierra Leone (Liedholm and Kilby, 1989) and Thailand (Rief and Cochrane, 1990). A positive impact is found for Burkina Faso by Reardon et al (1992). …”

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Is the emerging non‐farm market economy the route out of poverty in Vietnam?

Walle¹,

Cratty²

2004

Economics of Transition

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Are the household characteristics that are good for the transition to a more diversified market-oriented economy in Vietnam also important for reducing poverty? Or are there trade-offs? The determinants of both poverty incidence and participation in rural off-farm activities are modeled as functions of household and community characteristics using comprehensive national household surveys for 1993 and 1998. While there are some common causative factors, such as education and region of residence, the processes determining poverty and inhibiting diversification are clearly not the same. Participation in the emerging rural non-farm market economy will be the route out of poverty for some, but certainly not all, of Vietnam's poor.JEL classifications: I30, O12, O53.

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The Off-Farm Labor Supply of Farmers: The Case of the Chiang Mai Valley of Thailand

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

Non‐farm employment and incomes in rural Cambodia

Non‐farm employment and incomes in rural Cambodia

Livelihood diversification strategies in the Himalayas*

Is the emerging non‐farm market economy the route out of poverty in Vietnam?

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