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The Power of Inclusive Labor Force Participation for Mitigating Population Aging : Closing Gaps at the Intersection Between Race/Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force and Productivity
Maestas, Nicole - 2016
Population aging is widely assumed to have detrimental effects on economic growth yet there is little empirical evidence about the magnitude of its effects. This paper starts from the observation that many U.S. states have already experienced substantial growth in the size of their older...
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New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity : Implications for Industrialization and Development
Herrendorf, Berthold; Rogerson, Richard Donald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …
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Agricultural Labor Productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800
Mancall, Peter C. - 2001
Agriculture dominated the economy of eighteenth-century British America, and the pace of agricultural productivity …
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Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata
Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2017
Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455428
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas - 2013
agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459033
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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture
Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458839
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The Baby Boom's Legacy : Relative Wages in the 21st Century
Levine, Phillip B. - 1988
This paper assesses the impact of the post WWII baby boom on relative wages, when this baby boom cohort becomes the oldest segment of the workforce. Time series data are used to estimate a model of the demand for workers in eight age/sex groupings. Using these estimates, we simulate relative...
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Analyzing the Impact of the World’s Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with the goal of reducing joblessness and poverty. We...
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