income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and …

workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is … production has also promoted the employment of more highly skilled workers. …

to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover … status or a smaller network, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects and wages will be …

male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings … instruments. We found that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural insurance and more likely to invest in … savings for emergencies, even when we controlled for access to informal insurance and differences in crop choice. We …

manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … independent of insurance, largely due to the yield penalty under normal conditions. When bundled with insurance, however, farmersâ …€™ valuation of the rice increases. Farmers value insurance on its own, but even more so when bundled with the drought …