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How land fragmentation affects off-farm labor supply in China: Evidence from household panel data
Jia, Lili; Petrick, Martin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This study provides a deeper theoretical understanding of the linkages between land fragmentation and off-farm labor supply and investigates this relationship empirically in a more direct and robust way than in the existing literature. Drawing upon a rural household panel dataset collected in...
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How land fragmentation affects off-farm labor supply in China: Evidence from household panel data
Jia, Lili; Petrick, Martin - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
Research on agricultural development in China has increasingly paid attention to the potentially negative effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326506
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Factors Affecting the Development of Land Rental Markets in China A Case Study for Puding County, Guizhou Province
Tu, Qin; Heerink, Nico; Xing, Li - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
recent years there has been a rapid increase in the incidence of land rental activities in China. Large differences exist … within China, namely Puding County in Guizhou Province. Data from 792 households in three villages are used to analyze the …
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Chronicle of a Decline Foretold; Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point?
Das, Mitali; N'Diaye, Papa M - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China … labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of the world …
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Ältere Arbeitslose am Scheideweg zwischen Erwerbsleben und Ruhestand: Gründe für ihren Rückzug vom Arbeitsmarkt
Wübbeke, Christina - In: Journal of Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 1, pp. 61-82
In Germany, older unemployed people aged 58 or more years have been exempt from a fundamental principle of activating labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension without having to seek new employment (Section 428 of...
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Ältere Arbeitslose am Scheideweg zwischen Erwerbsleben und Ruhestand: Gründe für ihren Rückzug vom Arbeitsmarkt
Wübbeke, Christina - In: TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 46 (2013) 1, pp. 61-82
In Germany, older unemployed people aged 58 or more years have been exempt from a fundamental principle of activating labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension without having to seek new employment (Section 428 of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634267
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Why Are Women Working so Much More in Canada? An International Perspective
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826383
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Reforming Labor and Product Markets; Some Lessons From Two Decades of Experiments in Europe
Boeri, Tito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper evaluates European structural reforms over the last 20 years, in light of economic theory predictions about interactions between labor and product market reforms. Reforms in labor markets occur at higher frequencies than in product market, which are, however, more coherent. These...
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between Vertical Fiscal Imbalances (VFIs) and fiscal performance...
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Does Off-farm Income Alleviate Poverty and Income Inequality? Evidence from Rural Nigeria.
Ibrahim, M.K.; Srinivasan, C.S. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014
This study employed Nigeria’s household data from the RIGA database to examine the effect of off-farm income on rural poverty and income distribution. Specifically, the study employs the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measurement indices to examining the effect of off-farm income on...
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