Product Market Integration and Household Labor Supply in a Poor Economy : Evidence from Vietnam
This report considers how product market integration in a country's primary agricultural export alters the economic activities of men and women in a poor economy. Between 1993 and 1997, Vietnam relaxed its rice export quota and freed internal...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/03/3168103/product-market-integration-household-labor-supply-poor-economy-evidence-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15627 |
| Summary: | This report considers how product market
integration in a country's primary agricultural export
alters the economic activities of men and women in a poor
economy. Between 1993 and 1997, Vietnam relaxed its rice
export quota and freed internal restrictions on the trade of
rice across regions. These reforms contributed to an almost
30 percent increase in the real price of rice. Using a panel
of rural Vietnamese communities that spans the period of
policy change, the authors relate the regional and
intertemporal variation in the price of rice to changes in
the economic activities of children, young adults, and
adults by gender. They find that higher rice prices are
associated with lower participation in wage work by boys,
girls, and young adults, and lower participation in
household production by adults. Moreover, higher rice prices
are associated with less time devoted to household
production for all age groups and adults devoting more hours
to wage work. Finally, with the exception of children, labor
market responses to changes in rice prices mostly do not
differ statistically for males and females. |
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