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Determinants of participation in rural off-farm activities and effects on food shortage, relative deprivation and diet diversity

Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu - 2022

This study investigates the determinants of smallholders' participation in rural off-farm activities, which includes rural non-farm own business and wage employment, and its effect on food shortage, relative deprivation and dietary diversity. To address these objectives, we use a three-wave...

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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2009

Theorie zur Migration von Arbeitskraft, die den Wunsch des Einzelnen mit einbezieht, eine Abwertung des sozialen Status zu …

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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare

Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011

This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law," which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...

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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia : evidence from farm panel data

Gutu Sakketa, Tekalign; Gerber, Nicolas - 2017

gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse trends, patterns and … female youth members' agricultural labor supply is responsive to economic incentives. We investigate these using shadow wages … agricultural shadow wages matter for the youth's involvement in the sector, but their impact differs for male and female youth. The …

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Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector : panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Tigabu Degu Getahun; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; … - 2024

By leveraging firm-level panel data from 400 agro-processing and leather manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, this paper investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a positive impact of higher salaries on firm...

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Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration

Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007

A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban...

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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration : a substantial link, and policy design

Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2022

We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the formation of policies aimed at striking a socially...

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Growth, poverty and asset allocation : the role of the state

López, Ramón - 2001

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On export rivalry and the greening of agriculture : the role of eco-labels

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Grote, Ulrike - 2003

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Growth, poverty and asset allocation : the role of the state

López, Ramón - 2001

accumulation wages are likely to fall while peasants' income continues to decline throughout all stages of capital accumulation. …

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