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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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Implicit contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment : thirty years on
MacLeod, William Bentley; Malcomson, James M. - 2023
"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract...
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Pulls, pushes and entitlement failures in labor markets : does the state of development matter?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor);  … - 2006
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model's parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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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
cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities … have positive direct welfare effects on the small minority of smallholder households that are able to sell to it. However …
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Rural households in a changing climate
Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - 2012
, their adaptive capacity is insufficient for the task of maintaining - let alone improving - household welfare. We describe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629134
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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males, and (b) and cultivation of cash crops increases household welfare …, on its own, increase welfare, if women do not have access to complementary resources that are needed to generate income …
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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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