of hospitals, particularly in rural communities, to attract non-health related employment and provide higher wage jobs to … residents based on their education level. Results find hospital employees with an associate’s degree can expect a 21.4% wage … hospital. Hospitals are shown to be positively related to overall employment as well as exhibit positive employment spill …

The objective of this paper is to examine whether noncognitive skills explain differences in employment status and … noncognitive skills in rural China. …

agricultural productivity and rural household income and discuss some consequent policy implications. …

Agriculture productivity varies dramatically in different regions of the world. Using recent theories of economic … labour productivity growth, investment and education, as also for environmental factors, for 44 countries during the period … labour productivity grows faster. Secondly, geographical factors as well as freer trade influence growth. Finally, we find …

Investigation of size wage premium in earning’s literature neglects the important role played by technology adoption … technology complexity, using a sample from workers in US hog farms. The estimated wage gap between large and small farms is …

-holding, decision-making, intergenerational transfer, farm women, off-farm employment, employment, labor …

, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous … market share, enter export markets for the first time, and improve their productivity. …

This study analyzes the impact of local labor market conditions on the probability of employment and duration of … employment for low-income adults in Oregon. We find that economic conditions (lower employment growth and higher unemployment … rates) help to explain the less successful employment outcomes for low-income adults in non-metro areas. …