As labor market data is scarce in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this paper uses household survey data to analyze the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market and its welfare implications for five SSA countries in multinomial logit models with propensity score matching method. The analysis...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards avoid investments in companies complicit in modern slavery (PRI 2021, 4). Responsible investors have long recognized modern slavery, including forced labor, child labor, sweatshops, migrant worker abuses, human trafficking—and still more...

This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences) and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of agrarian contracts. First, it specifies type and importance of...

Millions of farm workers nation-wide who load, mix and/or apply pesticides are exposed to incredible amounts of pesticides on a daily basis. Various inefficiencies and inconsistencies in the regulatory system - including insufficient illness reporting data systems, lack of regulatory compliance...

This chapter determines the feasibility of offering short-term organic agriculture courses at the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture. The United Nations (UN) defines food security as a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to...

About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...

El autor analiza una población urbana y obrera vinculada a la industria del café: las escogedoras. Estudia el perfil del grupo a partir de factores como la edad, estado civil y alfabetismo en el contexto de la clase trabajadora de Medellín, para luego profundizar en el caso de la Trilladora...

El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una revisión de los principales cambios en la estructura ocupacional y las condiciones laborales de la fuerza de trabajo en las áreas rurales de México. A partir de la información de la Muestra del Censo General de Población y Vivienda del año 2000 y...

Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that geographic relocation does not help mitigate negative local economic shocks during recessions. This paper shows that this is not the case. I document that net in-migrationrates...

Previous literature shows that internal migration rates are strongly procyclical. This would seem to imply that geographic relocation does not help mitigate negative local economic shocks during recessions. This paper shows that this is not the case. I document that net in-migrationrates...