Findings suggest that social media seem more useful to disseminating information rather than allowing people to make full sense of the full economic and political impact extreme weather will bring.
14 pages, via online journal, We combine nationally representative household and labor force survey data from 1992 to 2016 to provide a detailed description of rural labor market evolution and how it relates to the structural transformation of rural Vietnam, especially within the agricultural sector. Our study adds to the emerging literature on structural transformation in low-income countries using micro-level data and helps to answer several policy-related questions. We find limited employment creation potential of agriculture, especially for youth. Rural-urban real wage convergence has gone hand-in-hand with increased diversification of the rural economy into the non-farm sector nationwide and rapid advances in educational attainment in all sectors’ and regions’ workforce. Minimum wage laws seem to have played no significant role in increasing agricultural wages. This enhanced integration also manifests in steady attenuation of the longstanding inverse farm size-yield relationship. Farming has remained securely household-based and the family farmland distribution has remained largely unchanged. Small farm sizes have not obstructed mechanization nor the uptake of labor-saving pesticides, consistent with factor substitution induced by rising real wage rates. As rural households rely more heavily on the labor market, human capital accumulation (rather than land endowments) have become the key correlate of improvements in rural household well-being.
Xuan, Vo-Tong (author) and University of Guelph, Canada and Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1983-08-21
Published:
International: Agricultural University Wageningen, the Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19449
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pp 73-77; Proceedings universities and integrated rural development in developing countries August 21-25, 1983, An International Conference
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02411
Notes:
Programme and abstracts, International Conference of the Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-28, 2013. 100 pages.
Nicetic, Oleg (author), Sen, Pham Thi (author), Nga, Le Thi Hang (author), Huan, Le Huu (author), and van de Fliert, Elske (author)
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2013-08
Published:
Vietnam
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02449
Notes:
Page 87 - Abstract of a paper presented at the International Conference of the Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-28, 2013. 100 pages.
Ngai, Nguyen Ba (author), Paul, Bardolf (author), and Thuan, Dinh Duc (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Vietnam
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19810
Notes:
Pages 105-111 in W.M. Rivera and W. Zijp (eds.), Contracting for agricultural extension: international case studies and emerging practices. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon, United Kingdom. 188 pages
