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

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...

This article explores the current practice of motivating agricultural workers in post-socialist settings. In addition, it attempts to evaluate the different wage systems observed in reality and better understand under which conditions they are reformed. It does so by contrasting the experience...

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

Africa's cooperative revival -- Conceptualizing cooperatives -- Outline of chapters -- Methodological notes -- Footloose labor in Uganda's coffee sector -- Rural labor diversification -- Working conditions in agriculture and beyond -- The discriminatory nature of informal labor market regulation...

This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It also assesses the Agrarian Production Credit Program, which is a program being implemented in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and the Land Bank of the...

"Oppression," Maraiti and farm worker livelihoods : shifting grounds in the 1990s -- The traction of rights, the art of politics : the labor "war" at Upfumi -- The drama of politics : dissension, suffering, and violence -- Politics and precarious livelihoods during the time of Jambanja --...

The professionalization of farming for women in late Victorian Britain: the role and legacy of the Langham Place feminists / Karen Sayer and Nicola Verdon -- Good farms, markets, and communities: Emily Hoag and rural women's studies / Joan M. Jensen -- Professionalizing farm women, recognizing...

Introduction: Transnational agricultural history in the North American West / Sterling Evans -- Agricultural connections across North America. Dependent harvests: grain production on the American and Canadian plains and the double dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Meat in the...

Prologue : getting to Immokalee -- To beat one of us is to beat us all! -- Bang your head against the wall long enough, and you have to admit it starts to hurt -- Campaigning for fair food -- Has anyone talked with these guys? -- Eyes wide open -- Forging the path by walking it -- "Value" can...

1. Introduction: The Farmworker, Past and Present -- Part I. The Victorian And Edwardian Farmworker; 2. The Farm Servant -- 3 The Agricultural Labourer -- 4 The Casual and Seasonal Workforce -- Part II. The Farmworker in the Century After 1914; 5. Farm Labour during the First World War -- 6. The...

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

We estimate the general-equilibrium labor market effects of a large-scale randomized intervention in which we designed and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both cultivators and to agricultural wage laborers allows us to...