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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war

Utar, Hâle - 2022

-plant heterogeneity points to a local labor supply channel where particularly plants utilizing low-wage, female, blue-collar workers are … impacted. Consistent with a blue-collar labor supply shock, the results show a positive impact on average blue-collar wages and …

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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

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 …

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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture

Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021

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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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023

, 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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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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