Informal Labor Exchange Teams and Participation in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
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Keywords
information asymmetries; labor market; labor exchange; relational contracts; Tanzania;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
- J46 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Informal Labor Market
- L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2025-05-05 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2025-05-05 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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