Abstract: In a recent IFPRI working paper, Van Cappellen and De Weerdt (2023), we show how urban growth reduces underemployment in the rural hinterlands of towns and cities. But leveraging these labor market linkages between urban and rural areas for i... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Working Paper 43: Rural Underemployement and Urbanization: Insights from a nine-year household panel survey from Malawi
Abstract: Rural labor markets in Africa are frequently characterized by underemployment, with farmers unable to fully deploy throughout the year one of their most important assets—their labor. Using a nine-year panel data set on 1,407 working-age adult... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program