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Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen …
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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...
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Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...
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This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
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Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be "washed out" through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...
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agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
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How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
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We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …
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In poor countries, labor productivity in agriculture is considerably lower than in the rest of the economy. We assess … between the marginal value products of agriculture and non-agriculture are considerably smaller when measured through wages … than through labor productivities. Third, labor productivity in agriculture is severely mis-measured in the US. …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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