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The Effect of Occupational Visas on Native Employment: Evidence from Labor Supply to Farm Jobs in the Great Recession

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation which is rarely directly measured even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly compare...

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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan Gatewood; Postel, … - 2017

An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...

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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017

We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...

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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Immigrant workers and farm performance: Evidence from matched employer-employee data

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup … - 2013

Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed...

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Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid

Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2017

employment, rural farm population, and rural property values, but there was little impact on the local non-agriculture economy …

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Climate Change and Diet

Bose, Neha; Hills, Thomas; Sgroi, Daniel - 2020

Though many in the general public are concerned about climate change, most are unaware that agriculture and food …

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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020

Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...

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