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Does a higher minimum wage accelerate labour division in agricultural production? : evidence from the main rice-planting area in China
Guo, Lili; Duan, Xiaoyu; Li, Houjian; Yang, Wanjiang; … - In: Economic research 35 (2022) 1,3, pp. 2984-3010
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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...
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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000–2007...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725084
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The differential impact of employment in agriculture on wages for rural and non-rural Palestine
Daoud, Yousef; Fallah, Belal - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-19
This paper investigates the differential impact of employment in agriculture on rural and non-rural wages using the quarterly labor force survey (LFS) collected by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). We estimate the wage equation for rural and non-rural workers controlling for...
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Paul, Saumik - 2020
-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …
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The impact of external migration from rural areas on the labor force in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in Romania
Oprea, Mihaela-Georgiana; Vlǎdescu, Mihaela-Irma; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 229-235). 2021
In the context of an increase in demand for labor in the European Union's internal market (where there is a regulatory framework allowing free movement of labor), particularly in areas such as agriculture, construction and domestic services, romanians' tendency to emigrate increases with the...
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Beyond Dualism : Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
of agricultural productivity in structural transformation in the labor market, with a focus on the differences between a … elasticity of wage with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to lead to a demand effect, the … allocation to the production of town good. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, the empirical analysis …
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The profits of power : land rights and agricultural investment in Ghana
Goldstein, Markus P.; Udry, Christopher - 2005
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim …
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The Profits of Power : Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana
Udry, Christopher; Goldstein, Markus P. - 2015
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060623
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Chapter 43 Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition
Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2281-2341). 2007
the interactions between human capital, productivity and health are explored. Most of the world's growth in population …, labor productivity and real income per capita have occurred over the past 250 years. We show that for most countries … improve labor productivity and create surplus agricultural labor that can provide workers for the growing urban areas. In some …
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