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This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural transformation of non-farm activities. To guide the empirical work, this paper develops a general equilibrium model that emphasizes distinctions among non-farm activities in terms of...
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-farm employment in Bangladesh. The results suggest that people are more likely to be employed in well-paid wage employment and self …-farm development in Bangladesh. …
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This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural transformation of non-farm activities. To guide the empirical work, this paper develops a general equilibrium model that emphasizes distinctions among non-farm activities in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246068
. The empirical context of the analysis is the Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh, which opened in 1998 and reduced the transport …
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This paper presents evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from agriculture to the nonfarm sector using survey data from Nepal and Vietnam. In the absence of credible instruments, the degree of selection on observables is used as a guide to the degree of selection on unobservables,...
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This paper presents evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from agriculture to nonfarm sector using survey data from Nepal and Vietnam. In the absence of credible instruments, the degree of selection on observables is used as a guide to the degree of selection on unobservables a la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191584
This paper presents evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from agriculture to the nonfarm sector using survey data from Nepal. In the absence of credible instruments, the degree of selection on observables is used as a guide to the degree of selection on unobservables á la Altonji...
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Bangladesh between 2000 and 2010. It finds a significant decline in spatial disparity in urban areas and the country as a whole …
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Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
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agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of …
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