between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the … through which non-farm employment might improve the welfare of rural households. Although participation in non-farm activities …, controlling for time varying differences in local market conditions and employment opportunities. The results suggest that non …

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural … village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities … agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …

financial crisis. Most of these layoffs affected migrant workers, who have typically lacked employment protection, tend to be … employment shock was short-lived. By mid-2009, the macroeconomic stimulus and other interventions had succeeded in boosting … the crisis, and notes the biases associated with alternative ex post efforts to measure the employment effects of the …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly …

, the determinants and dynamics of individuals' participation in off-farm employment activities have not received adequate … individual-level off-farm (wage and self) employment participation rates; analyzes the extent and drivers of entry into off …-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …

mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …

This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …'s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity …. The scheme prompted a 10-point wage increase and higher labor supply to nonagricultural casual work and agricultural self-employment …