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Learning about farming: innovation and social networks in a resettled community in Brazil
Comola, Margherita; Inguaggiato, Carla; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021
We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on social ties among settlers, and we leverage natural exogenous variation in network formation induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431296
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Land reforms, status and population growth
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337427
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Agriculture: transition buffer or black hole? : a three-state model of employment dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - 2002
We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415572
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The NAFTA tide: lifting the larger and better boats
Calderón Madrid, Angel (contributor);  … - 2007
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646696
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International job search : Mexicans in and out of the US
Rendón, Sílvio (contributor);  … - 2007
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646713
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Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso (contributor) - 2007
in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646722
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771056
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Adding rungs to the exporting ladder : plant-level exporting dynamics and total factor productivity growth
Voicu, Alexandru (contributor) - 2008
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771885
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Aid and migration : an analysis of the impact of progresa on the timing and size of labour migration
Angelucci, Manuela (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115241
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Social interactions and schooling decisions
Lalive, Rafael (contributor);  … - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355647