Effects of Ill-Health and Disability on Wage Employment Participation Decision by Smallholder Agricultural Households In Nigeria

S. B Ibrahim, Chittur Srinivasan, Nikolaos Georgantzís (nikolaos.georgantzis@bsb-education.com) and A. O. Arowolo

Nigerian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, vol. 10, issue 01

Abstract: This study investigated the effects of ill-health and disability in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) on the post-harvest wage employment participation of working-age smallholder agricultural households' members in Nigeria. Panel datasets of the Nigerian Living Standard Measurement Study, Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) were used. The measures of households' members ill-health used included: the number of days lost to ill-health disability and categories of ADL indexes such as physical fitness ability, participation difficulties, and sight and hearing impairments. The data were analysed using Factor analysis and Panel data Probit model. The results showed that 63% of the wage employed agricultural households' members were males, with 70% between 25 and 55 years of age. Over 90% of the respondents had primary education. Also, age, level of formal education, health status and sector of residence were the significant factors influencing agricultural households' wage employment participation. Specifically, increased illness days pushed the males and rural working-age individuals, into post-harvest wage employment. Good physical and mental health, a higher level of formal education, especially among the females in the rural areas are the significant factors affecting agricultural households' post-harvest wage employment participation. Thus, there is need for health investment for the maintenance of the respondents' health stock to maximise agricultural households' economic potential. The study provided new empirical evidence on the levels of functioning and disability in ADL and influence of days lost to illness and disability in ADL on the post-harvest wage employment participation in Nigeria. Implications for the policy will be to channel government financing efforts at encouraging the attainment of formal education, healthcare investment amongst the agricultural communities in the country. This is important to achieve enhanced human capital stocks, agricultural households' welfare and labour market productivity.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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