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labor market in Ethiopia’s growing cut flower industry. Using primary survey data of 320 workers randomly sampled from all … disappeared over time. Further, we find that the development of labor market for this newly-emerged industry took place …
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This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main results indicate that rates of return rise by level of...
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-Mart’s buying power index in labor markets in rural southern and central states is estimated to be 5% or higher while the impact on …
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Participation rates for farm women in off-farm labor markets continue to increase, as does their participation in …-holding, decision-making, intergenerational transfer, farm women, off-farm employment, employment, labor …
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, consumption, labor, credit, fertility and child schooling, intergenerational transfer, among other key behaviors of households are … region typology are then suggested, focusing on (1) the extent to which markets, particularly labor markets, are perfect …
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net when the urban labor market suffered economic shocks. The study explores how agriculture influences non …
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We develop a theoretical model using migration and trade theory to examine the effects of domestic and border enforcement policies on unauthorized workers and the U.S. agricultural sector. The theoretical results show that heightened immigration policies increase the illegal farm wage rate, and...
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private sector agencies. A synthesis and critique are provided of approaches to valuing the social opportunity cost of labor … increase the value of labor's productivity or reduce its costs, such as with job training, worker mobility and skill … proposals and among alternative (labor-intensive versus capital-intensive) technologies. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights …
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