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Sohns, Franziska and Diez, Javier Revilla ORCID: 0000-0003-2065-1380 (2017). Self-Employment and Its Influence on the Vulnerability to Poverty of Households in Rural VietnamA PanelData Analysis. Geogr. Rev., 107 (2). S. 336 - 360. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1931-0846

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Abstract

The following paper analyses whether becoming self-employed can help to reduce the vulnerability to poverty of rural households. We use data collected during four survey waves in three rural provinces in Vietnam to calculate region-specific logistic panel regressions. The results show that becoming self-employed increases the likelihood of poor households escaping poverty, but only if they are located in a regional economic environment characterized by an advanced stage of structural change, good infrastructural conditions, and proximity to markets. In less well-developed regions, becoming self-employed is not sufficient to increase the probability of poor households escaping poverty. What matters more is that self-employment is driven by opportunity and not by necessity. However, even opportunity-driven self-employment does not guarantee a reduction of vulnerability to poverty in all regional settings and for all household types. Especially, regional overspecialization in cash-crop production and inequality in access to assets have to be taken into account. In times of declining commodity prices, self-employment entails a risk of business failure in regions that are overspecialized in cash-crop production. For households whose initial investment is high and whose endowment with social and educational assets is low, this can result in increased vulnerability to poverty.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Sohns, Franziska UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Diez, Javier Revilla UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-1380 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-235315
DOI:	10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016.12206.x
Journal or Publication Title:	Geogr. Rev.
Volume:	107
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 336 - 360
Date:	2017
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1931-0846
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; ENTERPRISES; REDUCTION Multiple languages Geography Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/23531