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Broadband adoption and availability : impacts on rural employment during COVID-19

Isley, Catherine; Low, Sarah A. - In: Telecommunications policy : the international journal … 46 (2022) 7, pp. 1-21

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Determinants of Employment in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K. - 2011

Using household level data this paper provides systematic evidence on the employment impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in three Indian states: Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. We model this as a two stage Heckman procedure where we model selection for NREGS in...

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Place-based policies, rural employment, and intra-household resources allocation : evidence from China's economic zones

Zhao, Chuanmin; Qu, Xi - In: Journal of development economics 167 (2024), pp. 1-25

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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...

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Migration out of rural areas and implications for rural livelihoods

De Brauw, Alan - In: Annual review of resource economics 11 (2019), pp. 461-481

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The impact of external migration from rural areas on the labor force in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in Romania

Oprea, Mihaela-Georgiana; Vlǎdescu, Mihaela-Irma; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 229-235). 2021

framework allowing free movement of labor), particularly in areas such as agriculture, construction and domestic services … has continued to increase, leading to an increase in labor shortages in particular in the fields of agriculture, forestry … the fields of agriculture, forestry and fishing. The importance of this study derives from the fact that agriculture is …

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The effect of land inheritance on youth employment and migration decisions : evidence from rural Ethiopia

Kosec, Katrina; Hagos, Hosaena Ghebru; Holtemeyer, Brian; … - 2016

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More is more : livelihood interventions and child labor in the agricultural sector

Chiodi, Vera; Escudero, Verónica - 2020

What works to reduce child labor in agriculture? In this paper, we evaluate two randomized livelihood intervention …

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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 105 (2023) 2, pp. 434-452

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Analysis of the degree of ruralization at the territorial level

Bădan, Daniela Nicoleta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 216-223). 2023

This paper presents the main characteristics of the workforce in rural areas. The primary objective of the study is to highlight the importance of the workforce resource in the Romanian rural space, as a key element of sustainable development, given that 47.7% of the population resides in rural...

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