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Do Land Market Restrictions Hinder Structural Change in a Rural Economy? : Evidence from Sri Lanka
Emran, M. Shahe - 2015
This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a …-inelastic (assuming the non-farm good is non-tradable), or non-agriculture is less labor intensive relative to agriculture (assuming the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …
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What explains Latin America's low share of industrial employment?
Sinha, Rishabh - 2019
This paper investigates the relative importance of different channels in explaining the low share of industrial employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce in industry. Differences in domestic final consumption shares play a pivotal role and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008289
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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s
Ahmed, Sabin - 2015
commercial agriculture mainly to microenterprises in retail trade. In addition, the sectoral reallocation of labor on these two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246609
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Who is employed? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on redefining employment
Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios Lopez, Amparo; … - 2020
The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (in 2013) redefined labor statistics standards. A major change was to narrow the definition of employment to work for pay or profit. By the revised standards, farming that is only or mainly intended for own use is no longer considered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297225
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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy : evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020
This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a micro-foundation for the widely used linear-in-levels...
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How Do Women Fare in Rural Non-Farm Economy?
Fuje, Habtamu - 2017
This paper studies the gender-based differences in access to and return from economic activities in the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) using panel datasets from Uganda and Ethiopia. The results show that female-headed households have limited access to paid employment and self-employment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246035
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Improving the Rural Investment Climate for Businesses : Key to Rural Income Generation
Sawada, Naotaka - 2012
An appropriate rural investment climate (RIC) is essential for rural businesses to be successful and generate employment and income in their communities. Improving the investment climate could facilitate income-generation activities in both farm and nonfarm sectors, thus reducing rural poverty....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247883
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Structural reforms and firms' productivity : evidence from developing countries
Kouamé, Wilfried A.; Tapsoba, Sampawende Jules-Armand - 2018
This paper assesses the effects of selected structural reforms on labor productivity growth for 37 developing countries over 2006-14. It combines newly constructed reform indexes using the International Monetary Fund's Monitoring of Fund Arrangements data set and firm-level productivity from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806641
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Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys
Wollburg, Philip; Tiberti, Marco; Zezza, Alberto - 2020
. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228617
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008111