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Do Minimum Wage Laws Affect People Who Are Not Covered? Evidence from Documented and Undocumented, Hourly and Piece Rate Workers in U.S. Agriculture
Pena, Anita Alves - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
While a stated goal of minimum wage increases is to benefit low-income workers, some employers are not obligated to provide at least minimum wages to all employees. U.S. farm employers comprise one of these groups. Employees of large farms and H2-A workers (temporary nonimmigrant workers...
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Promotion of dairy farming and poverty reduction in Inner Mongolia, China
Dagula; Kiminami, Lily - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 82-96
Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to examine the actual conditions of the problems of poverty in rural areas in … Inner Mongolia, to clarify the problems involved in the measure to fight poverty through promotion of dairy farming and to … propose policies for future measures to fight poverty. Design/methodology/approach – Both quantitative and qualitative …
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Boats and tides and "trickle down" theories : what economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2012
. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
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Chapter 67 Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Southeast Asia
Estudillo, Jonna P.; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3435-3468). 2010
Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …
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Selling at the farmgate or traveling to the market:a conditional farm-level model
Francis M. Muamba* - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2011) 2, pp. 95-107
This paper seeks to indentify the determinants of smallholder farmer's market participation decisions using a farm level approach. By opening the black box which conceals the complex mechanism guiding farmers' market participation decision, this paper's contribution resides on its ability to...
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Can diaries help in improving agricultural production statistics? Evidence from Uganda
Deininger, Klaus; Carletto, Calogero; Savastano, Sara; … - In: Journal of Development Economics 98 (2012) 1, pp. 42-50
Although good and timely information on agricultural production is critical for policy-decisions, the quality of underlying data is often low and improving data quality could have high payoff. We use data from a production diary, administered concurrently with a standard household survey in...
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Rural Poverty and Income Dynamics in Southeast Asia
Estudillo, Jonna P.; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics
Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642974
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Chapter 5. Population, Poverty, and the Natural Environment
Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 191-247). 2003
This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the …
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Production Choices of Farm Households: Institutional and Behaviourial Aspects in Economic Theory
Mendola, Mariapia - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2006) 2
-risk, low-return activities; and in some cases, poorly endowed, risk-averse farm households might even be caught in a poverty …-trap, as they are unable to accumulate savings and make profitable investments to escape poverty. …
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