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Are Hispanic immigrant families reviving the economies of America’s small towns?

Coates, Dennis; Gindling, Thomas - 2010

In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...

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Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...

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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?

Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...

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Fiscal decentralization, rural industrialization, and undocumented labor mobility in rural China (1982-87)

Chen, Yiu Por - 2015

This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...

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Living in rural areas and self-employment

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022

This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...

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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006

Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban …-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before …-rural inequality ; Vietnam ; unconditional quantile regression ; Oaxaca decomposition …

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Modernization of agriculture and long-term growth

Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010

This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...

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