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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Nonfarm Employment and Poverty Reduction in Rural Ghana: A Propensity-Score Matching Analysis
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| Autores: |
Owusu, Victor
Abdulai, Awudu
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| Data: |
2009-06-19
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
Non-farm employment
Poverty
Matching
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics
Food Security and Poverty
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
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| Resumo: |
This article investigates the impact of nonfarm employment on farm household income and way out of poverty, using farm household data from Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. A propensity score matching model is used to evaluate the impact participating in both wage and self-employment. Separate estimates are also provided for males and females. The results from the study show that nonfarm employment has a positive and robust effect on farm household income and a negative and significant effect on the likelihood of being poor. Self-employment was found to have much higher impacts than wage employment, reflecting the fact that most employment opportunities in the rural areas are in the former sector.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/51363
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| Relação: |
International Association of Agricultural Economists>2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China
Contributed Paper
74
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| Formato: |
17
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