You Can(’t) Always Get the Job You Want: Stated versus Revealed Employment Preferences in the Peruvian Agro-industry

dc.creatorSchuster, Monica
dc.creatorVranken, Liesbet
dc.creatorMaertens, Miet
dc.date2017-04-01T19:41:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T11:14:36Z
dc.descriptionEmployment in high-value agro-export sectors has been recognized to entail the potential to contribute to poverty reduction in rural areas of developing countries. Concerns have yet been raised about the quality of the created employment and worker preferences have often been overlooked in the literature. We use a discrete choice experiment, in which we relate stated and revealed employment preference of agro-industrial export workers in Peru. We explain employment (mis)matches as a function of personal and employer characteristics. Results suggest that employment preferences are heterogeneous, but that labor market frictions are smaller than what is commonly expected in developing country contexts.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.254076
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/254076/files/BioeconWP_2017_02_submitted.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/254076
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/626003
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/254076
dc.titleYou Can(’t) Always Get the Job You Want: Stated versus Revealed Employment Preferences in the Peruvian Agro-industry
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