This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …

In poor countries, labor productivity in agriculture is considerably lower than in the rest of the economy. We assess … than through labor productivities. Third, labor productivity in agriculture is severely mis-measured in the US. … between the marginal value products of agriculture and non-agriculture are considerably smaller when measured through wages …

This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …

heterogeneous with respect to their entrepreneurial ability, and firms run by more able entrepreneurs have a higher productivity …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen … countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for …

these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non …

(economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …