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Globalization, structural change, and productivity growth:
McMillan, Margaret; Rodrik, Dani - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … pattern of structural change—with labor moving from low- to high-productivity sectors in Asia, but in the opposite direction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132641
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Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: Evidence from China:
Yang, Jin; Wang, Hui; Jin, Songqing; Chen, Kevin Z.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
an increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on China’s future food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132677
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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time, the sector has maintained a real growth rate of 3.4 percent per year, well above the population growth rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272208
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Employment risk and job-seeker performance:
Godlonton, Susan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation in employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by assigning them a 0, 1, 5, 50, 75, or 100 percent chance of real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755481