You Can(’t) Always Get the Job You Want: Employment Preferences in the Peruvian Horticultural Export Chain
通过秘鲁园艺出口工人的离散选择实验，研究就业偏好与实际工作的匹配情况，发现部分工人系统性地难以实现理想就业，为雇主和发展机构提供提升工作满意度和就业质量的建议。
Employment in high-value agro-export sectors has been recognised to entail the potential to contribute to poverty reduction in rural areas of developing countries. Concerns have yet been raised about the quality of the created employment and worker preferences have often been overlooked in the literature. We use a discrete choice experiment, in which we relate stated and revealed employment preference of agro-industry export workers in Peru. We explain employment (mis)matches as a function of personal and employer characteristics. Results suggest that employment preferences are heterogeneous, but that some groups of workers are systematically less likely to meet their ideal employment expectations. We formulate policy recommendations for both agro-industry employers to increase their workers’ job satisfaction, and for development agencies concerned with employment quality in high-value export sectors.