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Employment Conditions in the Senegalese Horticultural Export Industry: A Worker Perspective

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  • Van den Broeck, Goedele
  • Van Hoyweghen, Kaat
  • Maertens, Miet

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The rapid transformation of the agri-food sector in developing countries has created many 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 labor contract and employ a latent class model to capture preference heterogeneity. We find that women have a high willingness to accept a labor contract and that differences in preferences for contract attributes can be explained by women’s empowerment status.

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  • Van den Broeck, Goedele & Van Hoyweghen, Kaat & Maertens, Miet, 2015. "Employment Conditions in the Senegalese Horticultural Export Industry: A Worker Perspective," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211925, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.211925
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    • J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
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    • Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade

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