abstract: 'Farm households diversify their income sources into off-farm wage

  employment motivated by low farm income and availability of surplus

  family labor, whereas they enter into off-farm self employment to earn

  an attractive return. Farm households have upward-sloping, although

  inelastic, off-farm labor supply curves. Therefore, increasing the

  availability of off-farm activities and improving the wage rate received

  by farm households can expand the economic activity of the Tigray

  Regional State. Due to entry barriers, relatively wealthy farm

  households may dominate the most lucrative rural non-farm activities

  such as masonry, carpentry and petty trade. Hence the underlying factors

  that hinder participation in non-farm activities such as credit

  constraints and lack of skill may have to be addressed through the

  provision of credit and technical training for the poor. (C) 2001

  Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Oskam, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Wageningen \& Res Ctr, Agr Econ
  \& Rural Policy Grp, Hollandsweg 1, NL-6706 KN Wageningen, Netherlands.

  Univ Wageningen \& Res Ctr, Agr Econ \& Rural Policy Grp, NL-6706 KN Wageningen,
  Netherlands.

  Univ Addis Ababa, Dept Econ, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.'
author: Woldenhanna, T and Oskam, A
author_list:
- family: Woldenhanna
  given: T
- family: Oskam
  given: A
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/S0306-9192(01)00009-4
files: []
issn: 0306-9192
journal: FOOD POLICY
keywords: 'income diversification; off-farm employment; entry barrier; Ethiopia;

  Tigray'
keywords-plus: SHADOW WAGES; LABOR
language: English
month: AUG
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '15'
pages: 351-365
papis_id: b0249cc609053924b4e03ecaa021ba10
ref: Woldenhanna2001incomediversificatio
times-cited: '82'
title: 'Income diversification and entry barriers: evidence from the Tigray region
  of northern Ethiopia'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000171271400003
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '26'
web-of-science-categories: 'Agricultural Economics \& Policy; Economics; Food Science
  \& Technology;

  Nutrition \& Dietetics'
year: '2001'