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Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer (2010) showed that areas under direct colonial rule had fewer schools, health centers, and roads than areas under indirect colonial rule. Two decades later, we find that these...
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses …
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We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways....
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The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … downward impact on wages. There is evidence that reductions in working time added to wage pressure; yet estimates of labor …
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Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the sources of growth in the potential future labor force are described in this …
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attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous …This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular … switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find that rural households renting-in farmland increased labor productivity …
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revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between … a quasi-natural experiment to identify the relationship between land rights and labor allocation of farmers. We find … land loss. This finding raises concerns about the wellbeing of the farmers who may not be competitive in the urban labor …
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local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. … agricultural employment relative to non-farm employment being responsible for this gap. These results are consistent with a lack of …
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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …
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, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …
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