Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain

This paper applies a newly-developed survey instrument to assess the structure and dynamics of jobs in the potato value chain of North Lebanon. The analysis finds that while on-farm activities represent the largest source of jobs in the value chain...

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Main Authors:	Farole, Thomas, Konishi, Yasuo
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	VALUE CHAIN POTATO JOB CREATION COMPETITIVENESS GROWTH LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/425381511946041218/Jobs-in-North-Lebanon-assessment-of-the-potato-value-chain http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28938

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spelling	okr-10986-289382021-05-25T10:54:41Z Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain Farole, Thomas Konishi, Yasuo VALUE CHAIN POTATO JOB CREATION COMPETITIVENESS GROWTH LABOR MARKET This paper applies a newly-developed survey instrument to assess the structure and dynamics of jobs in the potato value chain of North Lebanon. The analysis finds that while on-farm activities represent the largest source of jobs in the value chain, most of these are low-skilled, low quality jobs taken by seasonal workers, offering limited opportunities for young Lebanese workers. The best opportunities to develop high quality jobs would come through investment in downstream processing, which would have a spillover effect also on expanding lower-skilled jobs across the chain. Taking advantage of this opportunity will require addressing significant constraints in the trade and investment climate in North Lebanon. 2017-12-04T22:55:58Z 2017-12-04T22:55:58Z 2017-11-28 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/425381511946041218/Jobs-in-North-Lebanon-assessment-of-the-potato-value-chain http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28938 English Jobs Working Paper;No. 9 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Lebanon
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description	This paper applies a newly-developed survey instrument to assess the structure and dynamics of jobs in the potato value chain of North Lebanon. The analysis finds that while on-farm activities represent the largest source of jobs in the value chain, most of these are low-skilled, low quality jobs taken by seasonal workers, offering limited opportunities for young Lebanese workers. The best opportunities to develop high quality jobs would come through investment in downstream processing, which would have a spillover effect also on expanding lower-skilled jobs across the chain. Taking advantage of this opportunity will require addressing significant constraints in the trade and investment climate in North Lebanon.
format	Working Paper
author	Farole, Thomas Konishi, Yasuo
author_facet	Farole, Thomas Konishi, Yasuo
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title	Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain
title_short	Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain
title_full	Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain
title_fullStr	Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain
title_full_unstemmed	Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain
title_sort	jobs in north lebanon : assessment of the potato value chain
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/425381511946041218/Jobs-in-North-Lebanon-assessment-of-the-potato-value-chain http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28938
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Jobs in North Lebanon : Assessment of the Potato Value Chain

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