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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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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

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Short-term migration and intergenerational persistence of industry in rural India

Nandi, Tushar Kanti; Kar, Saibal - 2015

that short-term migration by males reduces the probability of intergenerational persistence by 20% in rural India …

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Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? : experimental evidence from India

Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Arulampalam, Wiji; Imbert, Clément; … - 2021

can improve their placement outcomes. The study setting is the vocational training programme DDU-GKY in India. We find …

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Replacing churches and mason lodges? : tax exemptions and rural development

Behaghel, Luc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Quantin, Simon - 2013

This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and...

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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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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

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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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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...

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