Employment Conditions in the Senegalese Horticultural Export Industry: A Worker Perspective
| dc.creator | Vanden Broeck, Goedele | |
| dc.creator | Vanhoyweghen, Kaat | |
| dc.creator | Maertens, Miet | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:40:17Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T09:33:59Z | |
| dc.description | The rapid transformation of the agri-food sector in developing countries has created rural off-farm employment opportunities, especially for women. There is a growing concern about worker welfare and employment conditions in agri-food and export sectors but empirical evidence on this issue is scant. We analyze contractual preferences of female workers in the horticultural export sector in Senegal. We use a discrete choice experiment to assess women’s preferences for a labour contract and employ a latent class model to capture preference heterogeneity. We find that women have a high willingness to accept a labour contract in the horticultural export industry and that differences in preferences for contract attributes can be explained by women’s empowerment status. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.208756 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/208756/files/BioeconWP_2015_08_submitted.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/208756 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/610159 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/208756 | |
| dc.title | Employment Conditions in the Senegalese Horticultural Export Industry: A Worker Perspective | |
| dc.type | Text |