Does non-farm income diversivication in Northern Albania offer an escape from rural poverty?

Stellt außerlandwirtschaftliche Einkommensdiversifizierung einen Ausweg aus der Armut für landwirtschaftliche Haushalte in Nordalbanien dar?

Wiebke Meyer, Judith Möllers and Gertrud Buchenrieder, neé Schrieder

No 119, IAMO Discussion Papers from Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)

Abstract: The paper uses up-to-date household data from two Northern-Albanian regions. It summarises socio-economic facts on taking up remunerative non-farm employment and identifies the determinants of non-farm income diversification at the farm household level based on a binary logistic regression. Furthermore, the paper provides insight in the northern-Albanian farming structure, migration patterns, attitudes towards and reasons for income diversification into the non-farm sector. Income diversification indeed has a positive impact on the welfare of the households: A statistically significant increasing trend in incomes with rising diversification level was observed.

Keywords: Non-farm income diversification; farm households; migration; Albania; Außerlandwirtschaftliche Einkommensdiversifizierung; landwirtschaftliche Haushalte; Migration; Albanien (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 P36 Q12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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