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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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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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labor. Using Vietnamese data we find that capital market segmentation creates a two-track market for skills, in which state …
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disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa …
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Food processing has been widely recognized as a traditional, unskilled-labor intensive production. Yet rapid … educated/highly skilled (HEHS) workers. Theory holds that such labor liberalization policies will increase the level of … provincial level employment data from the China Labor Statistical Yearbook. This paper found strong evidence that the HEHS labor …
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reduced immigrant presence. We also found evidence that wages of farm workers, general patterns of labor use in farms and farm … proffitability may have been affected in a manner consistent with labor shortages. There is no clear evidence that state efforts have …
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We analyze the link between large and destructive floods and armed conflict in 117 countries between 1985 and 2009 employing flood-induced migration as a potential transmission channel. We use rainfall as an instrument for flood-induced migration and employ a two step procedure (Rivers and Vuong...
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International students offer an unique opportunity to study the extent to which environment causes obesity. Because international students have an imperfect ability to choose their destination and are less aware of the social and cultural conditions in and around the university campus we argue...
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-Saharan Africa, but evidence on the effects of these earnings on farm investments remains sparse. We use panel data from a sample of …, agricultural wage labor on other farms, and combined off-farm sources. We compare effects among three types of crops: a major food …
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