Deskilling and labour market barriers among skilled racialized immigrants in British Columbia: a mixed-methods study. [PDF]
Comp Migr StudKarki KK.
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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: What Drives Unemployment? [PDF]
The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003).
Karanassou, Marika, Sala, Hector
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Extended exergy based ecological accounting for the smelting and pressing of nonferrous metals industry in China. [PDF]
Sci RepQi H +6 more
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Measuring growth of labour quality and the quality-adjusted unemployment rate in Switzerland [PDF]
This paper presents results on human capital accumulation for the Swiss economy. We find that the index of labour quality has grown at a rate of 0.5% per year from 1991 to 2006.
Mathias Zurlinden, Thomas Bolli
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Burkina Faso with Agricultural Activities and Household Groups Disaggregated by Agroecological Zones. [PDF]
Data BriefHouessou MAK +3 more
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Estimates of labour demand elasticities and elasticities of substitution using firm-level manufacturing data [PDF]
Using firm-level manufacturing data supplemented with wages from household survey data, this paper estimates translog cost functions to calculate labour demand elasticities and Allen Elasticities of Substitution between capital and four occupation types.
Alberto Behar
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Redistribution, Fiscal Competition, and the Politics of Economic Integration [PDF]
The paper examines the redistributive consequences of the economic integration of factor markets. We consider two countries that redistribute income among their residents.
Anke S. Kessler +2 more
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