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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
constrained (the lean season) reduces aggregate labor supply, drives up wages and leads to a reallocation of labor from less to …
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Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2014
An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. We use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed...
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Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level : Sources and Productivity Implications
Cooper, Russell W.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Willis, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level … employment adjustment. Changes in market power, as captured by changes in the curvature of the revenue, function play a minimal …
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