Off-farm Activities by Agricultural Households in Nicaragua: Exploiting Comparative Advantages or Fighting Agricultural Problems?

Malchow-Moeller, Nikolaj; Svarer, Michael

doi:10.2139/ssrn.291964

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Off-farm Activities by Agricultural Households in Nicaragua: Exploiting Comparative Advantages or Fighting Agricultural Problems?

Nikolaj Malchow-Moeller

Copenhagen Business School - Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR); University of Southern Denmark

University of Aarhus - Department of Economics; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

November 20, 2001

U of Aarhus Economics Working Paper No. 2001-11

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This paper considers off-farm labour activities by agricultural households in Nicaragua. It compares the role of: i) comparative advantages of households and individuals; and ii) agricultural conditions and market imperfections, in shaping off-farm labour supply. An econometric specification is developed which allows for random household-specific effects and easy estimation. Results reveal that non-agricultural off-farm work is largely determined by comparative advantages, whereas agricultural off-farm work is used extensively to deal with a number of agricultural conditions and market imperfections.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 36

Keywords: Off-farm labour supply, household behaviour, household-specific effects

JEL Classification: O1, D1, J22, J43, N36, Q12

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Date posted: November 26, 2001

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Malchow-Moeller, Nikolaj and Svarer, Michael, Off-farm Activities by Agricultural Households in Nicaragua: Exploiting Comparative Advantages or Fighting Agricultural Problems? (November 20, 2001). U of Aarhus Economics Working Paper No. 2001-11. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=291964 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.291964

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Nikolaj Malchow-Moeller (Contact Author) Copenhagen Business School - Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) ( email ) Solbjerg Plads 3 Copenhagen, DK-2000 Denmark
University of Southern Denmark Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense, 5000 Denmark
Michael Svarer University of Aarhus - Department of Economics ( email ) Universitetsparken Building 350 DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark +45 8942 1598 (Phone) +45 8613 6334 (Fax)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 7 / 9 Bonn, D-53072 Germany

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Off-farm Activities by Agricultural Households in Nicaragua: Exploiting Comparative Advantages or Fighting Agricultural Problems?

Nikolaj Malchow-Moeller

Michael Svarer

Date posted: November 26, 2001

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Nikolaj Malchow-Moeller (Contact Author)

Michael Svarer