TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-term impacts of droughts on labour markets in developing countries
T2 - Evidence from Brazil
AU - Mueller, Valerie A.
AU - Osgood, Daniel E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Cristian Pop-Eleches, Glenn Sheriff, Eric Verhoogen, and two anonymous referees for comments on earlier versions of this paper. Valerie Mueller acknowledges financial support from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami, and the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - Climate shocks have well-documented impacts on the short-term welfare of rural households in developing countries. We investigate the impact of droughts on Brazilian labour markets. We find long-term rural wage losses beyond the immediate impact of the drought, with affected workers taking five years to catch up with their peers. Findings are robust to model specification. The severity of the losses varies with the dependence on agricultural income, supporting the notion of diversifying portfolio strategies in rural areas to reduce climate-related income risk.
AB - Climate shocks have well-documented impacts on the short-term welfare of rural households in developing countries. We investigate the impact of droughts on Brazilian labour markets. We find long-term rural wage losses beyond the immediate impact of the drought, with affected workers taking five years to catch up with their peers. Findings are robust to model specification. The severity of the losses varies with the dependence on agricultural income, supporting the notion of diversifying portfolio strategies in rural areas to reduce climate-related income risk.
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U2 - 10.1080/00220380902935865
DO - 10.1080/00220380902935865
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70849093269
SN - 0022-0388
VL - 45
SP - 1651
EP - 1662
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
IS - 10
ER -