Labor markets, occupational choice, and rural poverty in four Asian countries

Jonna Estudillo, Tomoya Matsumoto, Chowdhury Zia Uddin Hayat, Nandika S. Kumanayake and Keijiro Otsuka ()
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Jonna Estudillo: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Chowdhury Zia Uddin Hayat: Finance Division, Ministry of Finance, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nandika S. Kumanayake: Sri Lanka Customs, Ministry of Finance, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Philippine Review of Economics, 2013, vol. 50, issue 1, 23-44

Abstract: This paper explores the underlying mechanism in the rural labor market that leads to income growth and poverty reduction in the rural areas of the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Increase in nonfarm income, most importantly coming from formal jobs, has served as an important driver of income growth and poverty reduction. Thus, to reduce rural poverty, formal jobs must be created because quality of jobs matters a lot in improving the living standards. Classification-J24,J43, O15

Keywords: poverty; formal jobs; nonfarm sector; rural labor market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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