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The approach regarding the efficiency of the labor force in agriculture, but also from the perspective of labor …, implicitly also of the agricultural sector. Agriculture is considered one of the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and … therefore economic activity. This paper investigates the effects of agriculture on labor productivity and the agricultural labor …
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Labor productivity in Turkey, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, and New Zealand has been analyzed and modeled. These counties extend the previously analyzed set of the US, UK, Japan, France, Italy, and Canada. Modelling is based on the link between the rate of labor participation and real...
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This paper presents a stochastic integrated model to forecast the German population and labour supply until 2060 …. Within a cohort-component approach, the population forecast applies principal components to birth, mortality, emigration and … series are forecast by bootstrapping. This allows fully integrated simulations and the possibility to illustrate the …
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A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the...
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areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all … when there is no skill. We show, using an IV strategy in which the Indian government forecast of monsoon rainfall serves as … compared with farmers without access to forecasts. Even modest improvements in forecast skill would substantially increase …
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