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Decent rural employment and farm production efficiency: empirical evidence from Tanzania and Ethiopia
Author(s) -
Ayenew Habtamu Yesigat,
Estruch Elisenda,
Sauer Johannes,
AbateKassa Getachew,
Schickramm Lena,
Wobst Peter
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/agec.12359
Subject(s) - tanzania , rural poverty , agriculture , production (economics) , proxy (statistics) , agricultural productivity , poverty , standard of living , economic growth , rural development , rural economics , rural area , business , economics , agricultural economics , socioeconomics , geography , political science , archaeology , market economy , machine learning , computer science , law , macroeconomics
Promoting decent rural employment, by creating new jobs in rural areas and upgrading the existing ones, could be one of the most efficient pathways to reduce rural poverty. This article systematically investigates the impact of decent rural employment on agricultural production efficiency in Ethiopia and Tanzania. The analysis applies an output‐oriented distance function approach with an estimation procedure that accounts for different technological, demographic, socioeconomic, institutional, and decent rural employment indicators. Data of the 2011 round of Living Standards Measurement Study‐Integrated Surveys on Agriculture for the two countries are used, and a set of indicators is derived to proxy core dimensions of decent rural employment. The findings of our analysis show that decent rural employment contributes to agricultural production efficiency.