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Determinants of participation in rural off-farm activities and effects on food shortage, relative deprivation and diet diversity
Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu - 2022
This study investigates the determinants of smallholders' participation in rural off-farm activities, which includes rural non-farm own business and wage employment, and its effect on food shortage, relative deprivation and dietary diversity. To address these objectives, we use a three-wave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815555
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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma
Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2009
Theorie zur Migration von Arbeitskraft, die den Wunsch des Einzelnen mit einbezieht, eine Abwertung des sozialen Status zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944851
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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011
This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law," which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388245
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Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector : panel data evidence from Ethiopia
Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; … - 2024
By leveraging firm-level panel data from 400 agro-processing and leather manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, this paper investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a positive impact of higher salaries on firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632961
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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia : evidence from farm panel data
Gutu Sakketa, Tekalign; Gerber, Nicolas - 2017
gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse trends, patterns and … female youth members' agricultural labor supply is responsive to economic incentives. We investigate these using shadow wages … agricultural shadow wages matter for the youth's involvement in the sector, but their impact differs for male and female youth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637674
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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration : a substantial link, and policy design
Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2022
We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the formation of policies aimed at striking a socially...
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Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration
Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007
A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003780685
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Growth, poverty and asset allocation : the role of the state
López, Ramón - 2001
accumulation wages are likely to fall while peasants' income continues to decline throughout all stages of capital accumulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577589
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On export rivalry and the greening of agriculture : the role of eco-labels
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Grote, Ulrike - 2003
Why do some countries establish their own national eco-labeling programs and some do not? In this paper, we provide both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence suggesting that the answer to this question can shed new light on three questions that have taken center-stage in the trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145575
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Growth, poverty and asset allocation : the role of the state
López, Ramón - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001588861