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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838
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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969356
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Mitigating Long-run Health Effects of Drought: Evidence from South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
TBVC and non-TBVC areas after the repeal of migration restrictions. The results show that although drought has significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951388
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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Horton, John; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...
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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
Peri, Giovanni; Mayr, Karin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774710
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
Peri, Giovanni; Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …
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Under-investment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
explained qualitatively by a model in which migration is risky, mitigating risk requires individual-specific learning, and some … migrants are sufficiently close to subsistence that failed migration is very costly. We document evidence consistent with this …
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Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions
Guvenen, Fatih; Guler, Bulent; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
market movements between jobs or across employment states) are made by individuals acting in isolation. In reality, the vast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991934
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …
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Mismatch Unemployment
topa, giorgio; Şahin, Ayşegül; Song, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...
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