per year, well above the population growth rate of 2.5 percent. Despite this improved performance, agricultural … average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural …

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …

The paper aims at qualifying the links between labor-market-institutions, taxation, tax monitoring, and underground … the government. Vacancies and workers search are directed at a specific labor market. Workers are heterogenous in the …

division of labor. Moreover, as firms switch to decentralization, their employment structure becomes more homogeneous and wage …

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … pattern of structural change—with labor moving from low- to high-productivity sectors in Asia, but in the opposite direction …

an increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on China’s future food …

the newer one is based on a confusion between the conceptual and factual determination of the value of labor power. Second …