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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008

; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …

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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor : evidence from rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...

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Perspectives on the early retirement decisions of farming couples

Väre, Minna (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

is important to establish the factors determining the exit from farming among elderly farmers. This study analyses the … choice of pension scheme of farmers. The focus is on the effects of farm and off-farm incomes and various offered economic … incentives on farmers' retirement decisions. The results provide valuable information concerning evaluation of existing …

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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

number and the type of smallholder farmers - members and/or leaders of local producer organizations - invited to a three … effects of having participated in the training and spillover effects on farmers who did not partake. Looking at different …

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The performance of consumers' cooperatives in America

Pencavel, John H. - 2020

A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...

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Welfare effect and elite capture in agricultural cooperatives intervention : evidence from Ethiopian villages

Gelo, Dambala; Muchapondwa, Edwin; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2019

smallholder farmers through cooperatives that has the potential to increase the relative farm gate price of agricultural produce …

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The impact of Arab Spring on hiring and separation rates in the Tunisian labour market

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...

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Earnings and employment in foreign-owned firms

Maré, Dave C.; Sanderson, Lynda; Fabling, Richard - 2014

This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors (eg, differences in...

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Labour mobility : an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? ; empirical evidence for Western Germany, France, and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2021

This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels through which migration affects economic inequality between...

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