This paper explores labour market structure and employment links to poverty in Cambodia.
\nEmployment elasticity of growth, labour productivity and real wage growth are
\nthe main indicators of the labour market situation, while probit models
\nestimate the connection between household employment and poverty likelihood.
\nThe paper combines macro and micro data to perform a descriptive analysis. For
\nprobit estimation, it uses the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES) 2007-11.
\nThe results show that agriculture, albeit with a slow growth rate, absorbed a
\nbig part of the labour force, while the sector\u2019s growth was driven mainly by productivity
\nincreases, as was that of services. Industry grew rapidly, but its capacity to
\nemploy labour was relatively small. The growth rate of industry depended on
\nemployment levels within the sector rather than on increases in productivity.
\nNote that female workers had less chance of being employed than male workers: a
\n1 percent rise in GDP would increase the demand for female labour by 0.65
\npercent and the demand for male labour by 0.71 percent. The labour markets in
\nindustry and services were very competitive: growth in real wages rose along
\nwith increases in labour productivity, implying that expected real wages would
\nincrease with higher labour productivity and vice versa. In this case, firms
\nseem to have benefited from hiring more labour to expand their outputs as long
\nas wages remained manageable. This was not the case for agriculture, where
\nchanges in real wages and productivity reflect the possibility of labour being discarded.
\nEmployment creation in services is found to help the poor to have a better
\nchance of overcoming poverty, but this is not the case in agriculture and
\nindustry. From the empirical results, households employed in agriculture have a
\nhigher chance of being poor than those employed in industry. Factors that help
\nworkers to avoid poverty are land and education. The study suggests that macro
\npolicy should seek to make farmland more accessible to farmers, and that
\ninvestment in education should be increased so that every citizen at least
\nfinishes primary and lower secondary education, to increase workers\u2019
\ncapabilities and productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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