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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather, and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 278-83

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

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Selection, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences

Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 2, pp. 948-80

Cross-country labor productivity differences are larger in agriculture than in non-agriculture. We propose a new explanation for these patterns in which the self-selection of heterogeneous workers determines sector productivity. We formalize our theory in a general-equilibrium Roy model in which...

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Assessment of the Labour Market in Serbia

Gligorov, Vladimir; Ognjenović, Kosovka; Vidovic, Hermine - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2011

of the labour market, but also the obsolete skills of the high percentage of long-term unemployed. In general, the … share of income. Brain drain has become an important issue in recent years though it is hardly a new phenomenon. However …

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Creating (Digital) Labor Markets in Rural Tanzania

Jeong, Dahyeon - 2022

This paper examines the role of search and information frictions on wage dispersion. Job search costs are high in rural labor markets in developing countries. The flow of information on jobs and wages is limited, and wages tend to be dispersed. To lower search costs, I develop an SMS-based...

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No-Poaching Clauses in Franchise Contracts, Anticompetitive or Efficiency Enhancing?

Lafontaine, Francine; Saattvic; Slade, Margaret - 2023

No–poaching clauses (NPCs) have recently come under scrutiny due to their potentially anti–competitive impact on wages. However they can also enhance efficiency. We use data from the US chain restaurant industry to assess the effect of such clauses on wages and we find robust evidence of a...

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Explaining Peripheral Labor : A Poultry Industry Case Study

Alexander, Charlotte - 2014

Drawing on data and anecdotal accounts from a wide variety of sources, this Article investigates the law and economics of peripheral labor, so called because low wage, low skill workers on the periphery are excluded from the promotion ladders, job security, and steadily increasing pay available...

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The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture

Gowers, Robin; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper examines the effects on wages and employment of the minimum wage in agriculture in the United Kingdom during the interwar period. We find that the impact of regulation was to raise the wage for agricultural labourers by 13% when it was (re)introduced in 1924, by 15% in the late 1920s,...

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Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook

Timmer, Peter - 2004

In the long run-- over the past four decades--improvements in food security in Indonesia have generally been driven by pro-poor economic growth and a successful Green Revolution, led by high-yielding rice varieties, massive investments in rural infrastructure, including irrigation, and ready...

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Earnings Differentials in the Rural Labour Market: Does Non-Agricultural Employment Pay Better?

Jonasson, Erik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2008

for people who are unable to secure their income in agriculture. Although average earnings in the rural non …-agricultural sector are higher than in agriculture, it is unclear whether income prospects are systematically better in non … unskilled workers would earn a higher income by switching from agriculture to RNAE. Instead it tends to be the relatively well …

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Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages and Non-wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2012

Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is because the data available do not permit adequate treatment of econometric issues that arise in such an assessment. This paper attempts to estimate the impact of the introduction...

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