Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia

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Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A gender perspective (2018, background): “It contributes to economic growth, poverty reduction and income smoothing (van den Berg and Kumbi, 2006; Bezu et al., 2012; Fox and Sohnesen, 2016) and can enable investments on the farm (Adjognon et al.”
Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “constraints and also to better cope with environmental stresses (Barrett et al., 2001a; Liu et al., 2008; Babatunde and Qaim, 2010; Bezu et al., 2012; Hoang et al., 2014).”
Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture (2014, background): “These statistics seem to be consistent with earlier studies with respect to non-farm employment in Ethiopia where unskilled off-farm wage employment is shown to be the least well-paying of the non-farm employment opportunities and seems to attract the most desperate job seekers due to lower entry ba”
To Specialize or Diversify: Agricultural Diversity and Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia (2017, unknown): “While underreporting of income is a common feature of surveys in developing countries, Bezu et al. (2012) note that underreporting in the ERHS is severe.”