Fishermen’s competitiveness and labour market performance: Evidence from shrimpers in Bangladesh

Asad Islam, Sakiba Tasneem and Liang Wang

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2023, vol. 67, issue 03

Abstract: We conduct an experiment to determine competitiveness among shrimpers who engage in collecting shrimp seeds in the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh. We then examine how competitiveness affects the labour supply decisions and labour market performance of these shrimpers. Our results show that shrimpers who prefer competition are more productive than shrimpers who do not prefer competition. Competitive shrimpers secure better prices and earn higher incomes selling their catches. We estimate that their wage elasticity of participation ranges from 0.4 to 0.5, which is consistent with preferences under neoclassical assumptions. Competitive shrimpers have a slightly greater wage elasticity than non-competitive shrimpers, suggesting that they might be more responsive to expected earnings. Our results have important policy implications for the efficient management of common pool resources.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.343052

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