The Happy Farmer: Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being in Rural Vietnam

Thomas Markussen, Maria Fibæk, Finn Tarp and Do Anh Tuan Nguyen

No wp-2014-108, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using survey data from rural Vietnam, this paper documents a statistically significant, positive effect of self-employment in farming on subjective well-being. Wage workers are less happy than farmers across a range of different types of wage jobs. These results suggest that structural transformation is associated with a psychological cost, which may contribute to explaining earnings gaps between sectors and types of employment.

Keywords: Agriculture; Job satisfaction; Quality of life; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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