Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 436
Cover Image
Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486396
Cover Image
Is Western European agriculture resilient to high temperatures?
Massetti, Emanuele; Van Passel, Steven; Apablaza, Camila - 2018
agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922161
Cover Image
Using degree days to value farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; … - 2014
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468577
Cover Image
Droughts and farms' financial performance in New Zealand : a micro farm-level study
Pourzand, Farnaz; Noy, Ilan; Sağlam, Yiğit - 2019
We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of droughts on farm revenue, profits, return on capital, business equity, debt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002991
Cover Image
What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926385
Cover Image
Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016 - This Version: May 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482929
Cover Image
Can peers improve agricultural productivity?
Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - 2014
Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique Indian household survey, we estimate peer effects on agricultural revenue. Results show that 60% of farmers' revenue is explained by peers. Input expenditures and land allocation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404510
Cover Image
Valuing the time of the self-employed
Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022
People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815796
Cover Image
The power of markets : impact of desert locust invasions on child health
Conte, Bruno; Piemontese, Lavinia; Tapsoba, Augustin - 2021
This paper investigates the consequences of a locust plague that occurred in Mali in 2004. We argue that in agricultural economies with a single harvest per year, this type of shock can affect households through two channels: first, a speculative/anticipatory effect that kicks in during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534834
Cover Image
Tax competition, elastic labor supply, and growth
Hange, Ulrich (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we investigate the effects of tax competition in a simple endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply. Our analysis focuses on two issues. First, we show that all taxes, i.e. on capital, labor, and consumption, are harmful for growth. Second, we derive the optimal tax policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730258