Is There an Informal Employment Penalty in Food Security? Evidence from Rural Vietnam

Loan Vu () and Anu Rammohan ()
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Loan Vu: University of Western Australia
Anu Rammohan: Curtin University

The European Journal of Development Research, 2022, vol. 34, issue 6, No 13, 2923-2947

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we investigate the association between informal non-farm wage employment and household food security in rural Vietnam. The data for our analyses come from a nationally representative panel dataset of 1390 rural households from Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. We conduct multivariate regression analysis using robust quantitative tools to show that informal employment is associated with a reduction in the consumption of nutritious foods. Our analysis also shows that informal employment reduces consumption of vegetables and fruits, using both the calorie- and expenditure-based shares of food groups.

Keywords: Food security; Non-farm; Informal employment; Formal employment; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1057/s41287-021-00498-7

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