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Immigrant workers and farm performance : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup … - 2013

seems at least in part to reflect a causal effect of the immigrants. -- immigration ; agriculture ; matched employer …

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Diagnosing discrimination : stock returns and CEO gender

Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the...

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Social networks in the boardroom

Kramarz, Francis (contributor); Thesmar, David (contributor) - 2006

This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our empirical investigation relies on a unique dataset on executives and outside directors of...

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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia

Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015

The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...

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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2016

We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...

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Perspectives on the early retirement decisions of farming couples

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

In the past decade, the European agricultural sector has undergone rapid structural change. Part of that change is manifested in extended early retirement plans. As pensions play a crucial role in determining the characteristics the change, it is important to establish the factors determining...

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Self-employment in rural China: its development, characteristics, and relation to income

Gustafsson, Björn; Zhang, Yudan - 2021

The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the proportion of adults in rural China with self-employment...

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The agricultural productivity gap and self-employment bias in the labor income share

Paul, Saumik; Thomas, Liam - 2020

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … significant only in agriculture, which can be attributed to the heavily underreported income from self-employed workers in …

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The effect of sanctions on the job finding rate : evidence from Denmark

Svarer, Michael (contributor) - 2007

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by...

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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality

Frederiksen, Anders (contributor); … - 2008

In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...

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