Transition to market economics: Employment and informal activity in rural areas

Mieke Meurs, Stanka Dobreva and Veska Kouzhouharova

Forum for Social Economics, 2002, vol. 32, issue 1, 33-42

Abstract: According to the neo-liberal model, the high levels of unemployment and collapsing real wages of transition will reallocate labor to new activities. But whether and how households actually reallocate labor is the subject of growing debate. We use survey data from Bulgaria to develop a typology of rural households based on their labor allocation characteristics. We find a diversity of outcomes. A significant share of households experience no change in labor allocation, some shift labor to own commercial enterprises, but a significant minority are displaced from the emerging market economy. Potential for informal activity among these households appears limited. Of great concern is the regional concentration of such households.

Date: 2002
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