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Allocation of female talent and cross-country productivity differences
Lee, Munseob - 2023
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394245
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
; geographical isolation ; economic development ; agriculture ; industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530812
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Selection and absolute advantage in farming and entrepreneurship
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Amodio, Francesco; … - 2019
agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … from four Sub-Saharan African countries. Around one third of households engage in both agriculture and non … comparative and absolute advantage are negatively correlated - misaligned - in agriculture, casting doubt on the importance of …
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Crime and establishment size : evidence from South America
Oguzoglu, Umut; Ranasinghe, Ashantha - 2015
Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across establishment size that is validated against the data in South America. We find that high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307898
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What drives the speed of job reallocation during episodes of massive adjustment?
Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002
This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413904
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The long-run effects of immigration : evidence across a barrier to refugee settlement
Ciccone, Antonio; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian - 2022
After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the municipality level. Our identification strategy is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171556
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388301
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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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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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