Similar Search Results

Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data

Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017

South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732006

Can training enhance adoption, knowledge and perception of organic farming practices? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Indonesia

Grimm, Michael; Luck, Nathalie - 2020

In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. This has led to an increased interest in alternative farming systems such as organic farming,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242319

The unintended consequences of education policies on South African participation and unemployment

Burger, Rulof; Berg, Servaas van der; Fintel, Dieter von - 2013

In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756097

Trends in the intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans

Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle; Gwatidzo, Tendai - 2014

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415268

Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment : evidence from rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959376

Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936721

The formal sector wage premium and firm size

Badaoui, Eliane (contributor); Strobl, Eric (contributor); … - 2007

We show theoretically that when larger firms pay higher wages and are more likely to be caught defaulting on labour taxes, then large high-wage firms will be in the formal sector and small low-wage firms will be in the informal sector. The formal sector wage premium is thus just a firm size wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578897

Determinants of South African women's labour force participation, 1995 - 2004

Ntuli, Miracle (contributor) - 2007

responded positively to education which has been the prime factor. Non-labour income, marriage, fertility and geographical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566278

Does human capital protect workers against exogenous shocks? : South Africa in the 2008 - 2009 crisis

Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - 2009

capital provided a buffer against the shock. After controlling for observable characteristics, education and experience showed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925228

Bumpy rides : school to work transitions in South Africa

Pugatch, Todd - 2012

Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the wider literature on sequential schooling choice. In this paper, I quantify the importance of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530172

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last