The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment … of the WEAI. The WEAI can also be used more generally to assess the state of empowerment and gender parity in agriculture …

The debate over the wage effects of immigration for native workers is an old one. One side of the debate claims that … immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … of the US economy and estimates a wage elasticity of -0.4 with respect to immigration. In this paper, we replicate and …

"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok …, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new …

"This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok …, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new …

first examines how the conditions and structure of the migration process may increase HIV vulnerability for migrants …

and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …

Agriculture is the largest contributor to the economic well-being of most Nigerians. For the agriculture sector to … also been shown that agriculture R&D could increase agriculture growth and reduce poverty (Fan 2008; Thirtle et al. 2003 …). Therefore, research-based evidence is important to guide decisions that affect Nigeria's agriculture sector and its people. The …