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, consumption, labor, credit, fertility and child schooling, intergenerational transfer, among other key behaviors of households are … region typology are then suggested, focusing on (1) the extent to which markets, particularly labor markets, are perfect …
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net when the urban labor market suffered economic shocks. The study explores how agriculture influences non …
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We develop a theoretical model using migration and trade theory to examine the effects of domestic and border enforcement policies on unauthorized workers and the U.S. agricultural sector. The theoretical results show that heightened immigration policies increase the illegal farm wage rate, and...
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private sector agencies. A synthesis and critique are provided of approaches to valuing the social opportunity cost of labor … increase the value of labor's productivity or reduce its costs, such as with job training, worker mobility and skill … proposals and among alternative (labor-intensive versus capital-intensive) technologies. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights …
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labor. Using Vietnamese data we find that capital market segmentation creates a two-track market for skills, in which state …
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Agribusiness firms face substantial market risk associated with variations in farm production, output and input prices, exchange rates, and other factors. Some of the risk faced by agribusiness is passed through to the employees of the firm and to the communities where the firms are located, as...
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The substitution of capital for labor and new labor-saving technologies has reduced the labor required for farming, yet … many farms today depend on hired labor in some form. Common in the literature is the assumption of perfectly substitutable … farm labor. This has implications for the operator’s off-farm labor decision. Intuitively, different forms of farm labor …
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of children to family income in cash or in kind has been consistently significant. Currently, the issue of child labor … children's time using data from a survey of rural households in Ethiopia. The results show that there are a number of child … towards reducing the problem of child labor. …
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households with HIV/AIDS affected members observe a decrease in labor supply and productivity causing them to reallocate labor …. The reallocation of labor may result in change in agrobiodiversity. Sharecropping is often used to alleviate labor … Western Ethiopia. Results show that HIV/AIDS driven increase in sharecropping has a positive effect on perennial and overall …
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, involves a number of uncertainties. Unique panel data from Ethiopia which includes experimentally generated risk preference …
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