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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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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

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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Understanding the variation in estimates of off-farm labour supply elasticities : a meta-analysis

Balachandran, Rakhe; Penn, Jerrod; Bampasidou, Maria - In: Journal of agricultural economics : JAE 74 (2023) 1, pp. 116-134

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Incentives, selection and productivity in labor markets : evidence from rural Malawi

Guiteras, Raymond P.; Jack, B. Kelsey - 2014

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Prediction of the surplus rate of rural labor force in China from 2012 to 2050

Wang, Wei; Wang, Jinfeng; Wang, Zhihao - In: Modern economy 3 (2012) 5, pp. 557-562

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Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era : 1993-2011

Jacoby, Hanan; Dāśagupta, Bāsaba - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 8, pp. 1-26

This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …

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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 …

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The differential impact of employment in agriculture on wages for rural and non-rural Palestine

Daoud, Yousef; Fallah, Belal - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the differential impact of employment in agriculture on rural and non-rural wages using the …

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