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Employment growth in rural India: Distress driven?
Abraham, Vinoj - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2008
. Under conditions of distress, when income levels fall below sustenance then that part of the normally non-working population … are forced to enter the labour market to supplement the household income. The decline of agricultural sector has also …
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Trade and Labor Outcomes in Latin America's Rural Areas: A Cross-Household Surveys Approach
Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutiérrez, Federico; Porto, Guido G. - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2005
higher wages and labor income in rural areas, in particular for those workers located in the bottom quantiles of the …
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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather, and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 278-83
We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...
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Selection, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 2, pp. 948-80
Cross-country labor productivity differences are larger in agriculture than in non-agriculture. We propose a new explanation for these patterns in which the self-selection of heterogeneous workers determines sector productivity. We formalize our theory in a general-equilibrium Roy model in which...
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The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture
Gowers, Robin; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper examines the effects on wages and employment of the minimum wage in agriculture in the United Kingdom during the interwar period. We find that the impact of regulation was to raise the wage for agricultural labourers by 13% when it was (re)introduced in 1924, by 15% in the late 1920s,...
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Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook
Timmer, Peter - 2004
In the long run-- over the past four decades--improvements in food security in Indonesia have generally been driven by pro-poor economic growth and a successful Green Revolution, led by high-yielding rice varieties, massive investments in rural infrastructure, including irrigation, and ready...
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Earnings Differentials in the Rural Labour Market: Does Non-Agricultural Employment Pay Better?
Jonasson, Erik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2008
for people who are unable to secure their income in agriculture. Although average earnings in the rural non …-agricultural sector are higher than in agriculture, it is unclear whether income prospects are systematically better in non … unskilled workers would earn a higher income by switching from agriculture to RNAE. Instead it tends to be the relatively well …
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Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages and Non-wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2012
Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is because the data available do not permit adequate treatment of econometric issues that arise in such an assessment. This paper attempts to estimate the impact of the introduction...
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Ingreso no agrícola y empleo rural en Honduras
Isgut, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
En este documento se estudian las características y determinantes del ingreso no agrícola y el empleo rural en Honduras, con base en la Encuesta de Hogares de setiembre de 1998. Se encuentra que las actividades no agrícolas son importantes para los habitantes de las áreas rurales de...
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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821686