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 …

, 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 …

positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological … employment effect appears to be entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low …-tech industries; 2) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome points to a possible labour …

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average … farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the …, using detailed household panel data from Malawi. Importantly, we are able to calculate both average revenue products (ARPLs …

access to insurance of farming activities and wage employment opportunities could increase total household income. … activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non …-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of risk on the allocation decisions of agricultural households as they allocate labor …