Fishing and non-fishing income decisions: the role of human capital and family structure

Shaikh Eskander (smsu_isku@hotmail.com), Edward Barbier and Ben Gilbert

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Abstract: Resource-dependent households often diversify their income. We model demand for remittances and supply of off-resource labor as a joint decision, and discuss household tradeoffs. We extend the off-farm labor supply literature to a rural fishery, contrasting our results to common findings in the farm literature and providing empirical evidence of the interdependence between education and family structure in determining income diversification. Using a unique dataset from Malaysia, we find that more educated households are less likely to diversify their income, with caveats depending on family composition. Policy implications for resource management in a remittance economy with alternative livelihoods are discussed.

JEL-codes: J24 Q22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-02-01
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Published in Land Economics, 1, February, 2018, 94(1), pp. 114-136. ISSN: 0023-7639

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