Labor Market Impacts and Responses : The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster
This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, t...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/936081555939304756/Labor-Market-Impacts-and-Responses-The-Economic-Consequences-of-a-Marine-Environmental-Disaster http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31582 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the labor market
impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused
by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central
coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite
data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative
and heterogeneous impacts on fishery incomes and employment
and uncovers interesting coping patterns. Satellite data
suggest that upstream fishers traveled to safe fishing
grounds, and thus bore lower income damage. Downstream
fishers, instead, endured severe impact and were more likely
to substitute fishery hours for working secondary jobs. The
paper also finds evidence on an impact recovery to fishing
intensity and fishery income, and a positive labor market
spillover to freshwater fishery. |
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