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Activities, Employment, and Wages in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico
Verner, Dorte - 2012
The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income …-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous … qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural Mexico suggests that the two key …
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Social and Economic Impacts of Rural Road Improvements in the State of Tocantins, Brazil
Iimi, Atsushi; Lancelot, Eric R.; Manelici, Isabela - 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564547
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Labor Markets in Rural and Urban Haiti : Based on the First Household Survey for Haiti
Verner, Dorte - 2012
This paper addresses labor markets in Haiti, including farm and nonfarm employment and income generation. The analyses are based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole country and representative at the regional level. The findings suggest that four key...
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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World : Evidence From China
de Brauw, Alan; Giles, John - 2012
In this paper, the authors examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for...
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Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate : Evidence from Tanzania
Kinda, Tidiane; Loening, Josef L. - 2012
This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, the authors describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a difficult business environment. However, about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552466
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Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis : An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia
McCulloch, Neil; Weisbrod, Julian; Timmer, C. Peter - 2012
Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realized in farming, in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552623
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Labor Markets and Income Generation in Rural Argentina
Verner, Dorte - 2012
This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes. Findings show that the poor allocate a lower share of their labor to farm sectors than the nonpoor do, but still around 70 percent work in agriculture, and the vast majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553914
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How Fair is Workfare? Gender, Public Works, and Employment in Rural Ethiopia
Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Yohannes, Yisehac - 2012
The authors use the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey to examine the gender dimensions of public works. They use three rounds of a panel conducted in 1994-95 to explore the determinants of participation in, days worked, wages, and earnings from wage labor, food-for-work (FFW), and...
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Gender and Rural Non-farm Entrepreneurship
Rijkers, Bob; Costa, Rita - 2012
Despite their increasing prominence in policy debates, little is known about gender inequities in non-agricultural labor market outcomes in rural areas. Using matched household-enterprise-community data sets from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper documents and analyzes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554498
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Labor Market Distortions, Rural-Urban Inequality, and the Opening of China's Economy
Hertel, Thomas; Zhai, Fan - 2013
The authors evaluate the impact of two key factor market distortions in China on rural-urban inequality and income distribution. They find that creation of a fully functioning land market has a significant impact on rural-urban inequality. This reform permits agricultural households to focus...
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