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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is "basic security", with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...

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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy

Brugiavini, Agar - 2009

This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...

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Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets : Evidence from Rural Malawi

Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2014

An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. We use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed...

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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia : Evidence from Farm Panel Data

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Gerber, Nicolas - In: Change at home, in the labor market, and on the job, (pp. 61-106). 2021

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Rural Shadow Wages and Youth Agricultural Labor Supply in Ethiopia : Evidence from Farm Panel Data

Sakketa, Takalign - 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 …

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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production

Fink, Günther - 2018

constrained (the lean season) reduces aggregate labor supply, drives up wages and leads to a reallocation of labor from less to …

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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production

Fink, Guenther - 2018

constrained (the lean season) reduces aggregate labor supply, drives up wages and leads to a reallocation of labor from less to …

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Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets : Evidence from Rural Malawi

Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2014

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Household-level determinants of employment and earnings in rural Nigeria

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Adeyonu, Abigail Gbemisola - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16

Despite the extensive literature on rural poverty outcome, the labour employment channel has not been carefully investigated for rural Nigeria. The paper used the socioeconomic data from the three waves of the Nigerian General Household Survey Panel (2010/2011, 2012/3013 and 2015/2016 to examine...

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Labour supply of cultivator and labour households : insights from a longitudinal survey in Vidarbha, Maharashtra

Gaurav, Sarthak; Singh, Rahul Kumar; Ranganathan, Thiagu - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 67 (2024) 4, pp. 1117-1140

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