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induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, 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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We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the existing explanations for this decline, we put forward the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less...
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According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across 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...
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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 … non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the importance of two specification choices when comparing productivity gaps …
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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …
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identified in the structural literature through which EPL-induced job reallocation affects productivity, innovation, and overall …
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agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … from four Sub-Saharan African countries. Around one third of households engage in both agriculture and non … comparative and absolute advantage are negatively correlated - misaligned - in agriculture, casting doubt on the importance of …
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This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular … attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous … switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find that rural households renting-in farmland increased labor productivity …
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …
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impact of AI on jobs, inequality, wages, labor productivity and long-run GDP growth are explored. …
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