Information Measures of Wages and Employment: Application to Senegal  

作　　者：Charles B. Moss Samba Mbaye James F. Oehmke Charles B. Moss;Samba Mbaye;James F. Oehmke(Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;Department of Economics and Management Scienes, Universite Gaston Berger de Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Senegal;United States Agency for International Development, Washington DC, USA)

机构地区：[1]Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA [2]Department of Economics and Management Scienes, Universite Gaston Berger de Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Senegal [3]United States Agency for International Development, Washington DC, USA

出　　处：《Applied Mathematics》2016年第3期177-182,共6页应用数学（英文）

摘　　要：This paper develops an information theoretic estimator of wage and employment shifts that provides quantification of and inference about type of employment (full time, part time, seasonal, unemployed) and industry share of employment. It is applied to determine the effects of two United States Agency for International Development (USAID) projects on employment in villages in the Tambacounda and Kedougou provinces in Senegal. The projects support the development of local forest-based production and processing industries. The results demonstrate statistically significant and positive effects on employment and the industry composition of employment.This paper develops an information theoretic estimator of wage and employment shifts that provides quantification of and inference about type of employment (full time, part time, seasonal, unemployed) and industry share of employment. It is applied to determine the effects of two United States Agency for International Development (USAID) projects on employment in villages in the Tambacounda and Kedougou provinces in Senegal. The projects support the development of local forest-based production and processing industries. The results demonstrate statistically significant and positive effects on employment and the industry composition of employment.

关 键 词：Information Theory Agribusiness Development AGRO-FORESTRY Forest Resources Poverty Reduction 

分 类 号：F42[经济管理—产业经济]