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This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to deal with the heterogeneity of rural nonfarm activities by using aggregations into categories that...
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signals of productivity for an immigrant than a native-born individual. Using multiple data sets, the paper presents a robust …
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of inefficient SMEs—might improve total factor productivity growth rates. The traditional business model of being …
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This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in labour productivity … determinants of productivity. Furthermore, higher enrolments in high schools not only contribute to higher labour productivity but … also to higher growth in productivity. In addition, states that have higher high school enrolment rates have been enjoying …
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investigate how such a bank capital requirement affects the international transmission of productivity and loan default shocks … productivity shocks. Second, the contribution of loan default shocks to business cycle fluctuations is negligible under normal …
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In this paper, we establish three new facts about price-setting by multiproduct firms and contribute a model that can explain our findings. Our findings have important implications for real effects of nominal shocks and provide guidance for how to model pricing decisions of firms. On the...
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Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There are many schemes taken by NABARD to improve the agricultural sector but there ahead which...
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This study examines options for managing rice residue and the factors that determine its management in the south-west region of Bangladesh. Study results indicate that while straw length, low-elevation land and distance of the plot from the homestead positively and significantly influence the...
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The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post … increase is found in the annual rates of technical change, efficiency change, and productivity growth – about 3, 8 and 0 …
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This paper proposes a theory of the origins of India’s caste system by explicitly recognizing the productivity of …
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