Employment and Income in the Urban Informal Sector; a Case Study of Ka Tikala Producers in Assela Town
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mulugeta, Solomon (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolde, Tesfaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-25T07:08:30Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-19T12:04:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-25T07:08:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-19T12:04:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 0ir:;P in Assela town. In order to achieve this, a multi-stage sampling procedure was emp oyed. On the whole useable questionnaires were collected from 200 katikala producing households in six systematically selected kebeles and 30 katikala distributors. In order to achieve the objective, both descriptive and statistical analytical tools have been utilised. Pearson 's product moment analysis model was employed to see determinants of income in the activity. The finding indicated that Katikala industry is found to support huge labour force (almost entirely of female) particularly in the production sector. The lack of job opportunity, family responsibility, insufficient family income from other sources are found to be the major pushing factors of the operators into the activity. The producers are using simple and rudimentmy tools and they work in in sanitary conditions. The finding filrther revealed that Katikala producers found to generate an average monthly income of I 02. 9 birr, while the distributors get avegare monthly income of 260.0 birr. The problems of lack of capitals, their incom ({1m other sources and their family size found to determine monthly income of the atakana roducers. Similarly, investing capital" work experience and age of the distributors are found to be the principal determinants of income to this group. The problems of housing, fluctuation of cost of input and out put, infrastructural facilities and the rudimentary equpements used in the activity and the backward techniques of production are found to be identified constraints among the producers, where as the abcence of defined predetermined location for sale ~ lack and improper transportation are found to be constraints for the distributors. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/30877 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Informal Sector | en_US |
| dc.title | Employment and Income in the Urban Informal Sector; a Case Study of Ka Tikala Producers in Assela Town | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |