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Small producer participation in export vegetable supply chains and household labour allocation in Tanzania: An age-disaggregated approach

High-value agricultural supply chains have been playing an increasingly important role in developing countries and have had significant effects on the rural labour markets. This paper analyses the simultaneous effects of small producer participation in the latter on both household hired labour demand and off-farm labour supply, using an age-disaggregated approach. Failing to reject the separability hypothesis as well as the exogeneity of small producer participation in export supply chains, we apply lognormal double-hurdle models and find that participation in vegetable export supply chains in Tanzania affects positively a household's decision to hire labour from all age groups. We also find that it increases the unconditional overall level of hired labour demand, while the age-disaggregated analysis shows that these effects benefit mostly rural youth. However, no evidence of an effect on household off-farm labour supply is found.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: GlobalFood Discussion Papers ; No. 98

Classification
Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Agricultural Labor Markets
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Subject
export supply chains
hired labour
off-farm labour
small producers
rural youth

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Benali, Marwan
Brümmer, Bernhard
Afari-Sefa, Victor
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Research Training Group (RTG) 1666 - GlobalFood
(where)
Göttingen
(when)
2017

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Benali, Marwan
  • Brümmer, Bernhard
  • Afari-Sefa, Victor
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Research Training Group (RTG) 1666 - GlobalFood

Time of origin

  • 2017

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