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We explore the causal effect of market-oriented pension reform on net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Latin America, which has experienced a wave of pension privatization and FDI in the last two decades. With our balanced panel of 17 countries over the 1991-2006 period, we implement...
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implementing them and their impact on wages and productivity. Then, using individual-level data from the Gallup World Poll for 18 … link between good job conditions, workers’ labor income and productivity when there are several simultaneous signals of a …
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This research develops economic framed field experiments in order to analyze the attitude and behavior of farm groundwater users in several fictional situations, including adoption of efficient irrigation technology and compliance of group arrangements. A groundwater game was played by 256...
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Rising oil prices has led to increased interest to replace domestic demand for liquid fuels for transport (petrol and diesel) with biofuel production (ethanol and biodiesel). One of the pioneers in biofuel production is Brazil, which since the 1970s has established a government program that...
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This study determines how production and trade policy distortions affected rice productivity in thirty-three rice …-producing countries. A rice-productivity index for each country is constructed, and a model linking the productivity gap with policy … widened the gap in rice productivity between rich and poor rice countries. …
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Economic theory alone cannot predict the impacts of government payments on farm structure. We estimate a 5-equation model for the 1978-96 period to measure the impacts using state micro and macro data sets. We found that government payments were positively associated with farm size and farm...
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has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Productivity … supermarket channels increases farm productivity by 35-38%. Effects on technical efficiency are, however, insignificant …
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agricultural productivity and rural household income and discuss some consequent policy implications. …
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This paper proposes an iterative procedure for testing periods of technical progress and periods of technical regress. We apply this methodology to the French food industry.
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raise plant-level productivity by about 15 to 20 percent. However, the estimates reveal that efficiency in plants that … 1981-1991, increases about 30 percent upon their entry into foreign markets, while productivity in plants that become only … occasional exporters does not change at all. Hence, the positive impact of exports on productivity for is driven by the large …
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