Working Poor? A Study of Rural Workers' Economic Welfare in Kenya

Fibæk, Maria

doi:10.1002/jid.3511

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“…Only when surplus labor is exhausted (the Lewis turning point), will wages and job quality in both the low and high productivity sector improve. This is consistent with the sluggish increase in real wages in labor-intensive sectors that have expanded for decades, such as the horticultural export sector in Senegal (Maertens and Fabry, 2019) and the large-scale farm sector in Kenya (Fibaek, 2021).…”

Section: Governance Of Decent Worksupporting

confidence: 62%

Rural Employment in Africa: Trends and Challenges

Christiaensen

Maertens

2022

Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ.

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Africa's rural population continues to expand rapidly, and labor productivity in agriculture and many rural-off farm activities remain low. This review uses the lens of a dual economy and the associated patterns of agricultural, rural, and structural transformation to review the evolution of Africa's rural employment and its inclusiveness. Many African countries still find themselves in an early stage of the agricultural and rural transformation. Given smaller sectoral productivity gaps than commonly assumed, greater size effects, and larger spillovers, investment in agriculture and the rural off-farm economy remains warranted to broker the transition to more and more productive rural employment. The key policy questions thus become how best to invest in the agri-food system (on and increasingly also off the farm) and how best to generate demand for nonagricultural goods and services that rural households can competitively produce. Informing these choices continues to present a major research agenda, with digital technologies, the imperative of greening, and intra-African liberalization raising many unarticulated and undocumented opportunities and challenges. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 14 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Governance Of Decent Worksupporting

confidence: 62%

Rural Employment in Africa: Trends and Challenges

Christiaensen

Maertens

2022

Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ.

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“…Africa (Feder and Yu, 2019) and Kenya (Fibaek, 2021). Working poverty is also related to material deprivation (Cheung et al, 2019) and political inclusion (Marinova, 2020).…”

Section: Determinants Of Working Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(2020) emphasized the impact of job intensity and job stability on working poverty in Italy. There was a significant effect of low wages on working poverty in the USA (Lyon, 2018), as well as in Hong Kong (Cheung and Chou, 2016), South Africa (Feder and Yu, 2019) and Kenya (Fibaek, 2021). Working poverty is also related to material deprivation (Cheung et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The results show that working poverty is fundamental to the fight against poverty. However, the working poor is found both in developed and developing countries (Gangopadhyay et al, 2014;Feder and Yu, 2019;Fibaek, 2021). Even in developing countries, the proportion of working poor is higher (ILO, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From the supply side, improving education and skill promote employability simultaneously by creating an efficient labor market (Karnani, 2011). However, these are not necessarily enough to reduce the risk of poverty if the wages or income received are lower than the standard of living (Cheung and Chou, 2016; Feder and Yu, 2019; ILO, 2019; Fibaek, 2021). To escape poverty, poor people must have decent and more productive work to increase their income, even though the relationship between low-paid employment and poverty is not straightforward (Feder and Yu, 2019).…”

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Determinants of working poverty in Indonesia

Faharuddin

Endrawati

2022

JED

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PurposeThe study’s first aim is to estimate the scale of working poverty using a nationwide household survey. The second aim is to answer the following research questions: is working enough to escape poverty, and what are the determinants of working poverty?Design/methodology/approachThe focus is on working people in Indonesia who have per capita household expenditure below the provincial poverty line. The determinant analysis used logistic regression on the first quarter of 2013 Susenas microdata.FindingsThe study found that the scale of the working poverty problem is equivalent to the scale of the poverty, although the in-work poverty rate is lower than the poverty rate in all provinces. The logistic regression results conclude that the three factors, namely individual-level, employment-related and household-level variables, have significant contributions to the incidence of the working poor in Indonesia.Practical implicationsSome practical implications for reducing the incidence of working poverty are increasing labor earnings through productivity growth and improving workers' skills, encouraging the labor participation of the poor and reducing precarious work. This study also suggests the need to continue assisting the working poor, particularly by increasing access to financial credit.Originality/valueResearch aimed at studying working poverty in Indonesia in the peer-reviewed literature is rare until now based on the authors' search. This study will fill the gap and provoke further research on working poverty in Indonesia.

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Time poverty and gender in urban sub‐Saharan Africa: Long working days and long commutes in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area

Carmichael

Darko

Daley

et al. 2023

J of Intl Development

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This study uses a mixed‐methods approach and primary data to consider how the length of the working day in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area is shaped by time in paid and unpaid work and commuting. The analysis investigates gender differences in the length of the working day and the incidence of time poverty, and explores the relationship between long working days, long and arduous commutes and well‐being. Women are found to be more time poor, and their longer hours of unpaid household caregiving and chores and more difficult commutes have consequences for their leisure time, family–life and health.

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Working Poor? A Study of Rural Workers' Economic Welfare in Kenya

Cited by 5 publications

References 41 publications

Rural Employment in Africa: Trends and Challenges

Rural Employment in Africa: Trends and Challenges

Determinants of working poverty in Indonesia

Time poverty and gender in urban sub‐Saharan Africa: Long working days and long commutes in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area

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