The supermarket revolution and impacts on agricultural labor markets: Empirical evidence from Kenya

Arbeitspapier

Many developing countries are currently experiencing a rapid expansion of supermarkets. New supermarket procurement systems could have important implications for farming and wider rural development. While previous studies have analyzed farm profit and income effects, possible employment effects have received much less attention. Building on data from a recent survey of vegetable farmers in Kenya, in this article a double-hurdle model of hired labor use is developed and estimated. Farmer participation in supermarket channels increases the likelihood of hiring labor by 13% and overall demand for hired labor by 38%. A gender disaggregation shows that positive employment effects are especially pronounced for female hired labor. Given that agricultural wage labor is primarily an activity of low-income households in rural areas, the poor benefit over-proportionally.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: GlobalFood Discussion Papers ; No. 1

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness ; Agricultural Labor Markets
• Thema: Supermarkets ; Off-farm income ; Hired labor ; Double-hurdle model ; Kenya

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Rao, Elizaphan J. O. ; Qaim, Matin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Research Training Group (RTG) 1666 - GlobalFood
• (wo): Göttingen
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.22004/ag.econ.107745
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/90611
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ