Abstract
Involuntary wage-unemployment in poor agriculture is shown to apply only to the working poor who suffer economic distress--working longer at lower wage rates but earning smaller incomes; these workers are also observed to engage in low-productive self-employment activities to supplement their wage-incomes. Estimates of per capita household consumption and of food and nutritional intake functions derived by using data from three villages in Bangladesh provide strong evidence of economic distress. While this distress discourages deliberate wage-reductions, self-employment activities offer the opportunity to maintain the wage rate at its current level. Copyright 1993 by WWZ and Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag AG
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