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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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Rainfall variability and labor allocation in Uzbekistan : the role of women's empowerment
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga; Alimukhamedova, … - 2023
that rainfall variability induces the reallocation of labor supply: (i) out of agriculture to unemployment, (ii) from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338461
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Minimum wages and unemployment during economic shocks
Merfeld, Joshua D.; Sharp, Matthew - 2023
This paper studies whether a minimum wage changes how labour markets respond to economic shocks. Using data from South Africa, we show that an agricultural minimum wage leads to higher mean wages with no significant impacts on mean employment. However, these positive aggregate outcomes hide...
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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
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Should farmers farm more? : comparing marginal products within Malawian households
Brummund, Peter; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
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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The importance of specification choices when analyzing sectoral productivity gaps
Merfeld, Joshua D.; Brummund, Peter - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703023
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Gendering technological change: evidence from agricultural mechanization
Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2020
Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …
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