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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan +2 more
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Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor [PDF]
Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries.
Panu Poutvaara
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Trade Realignments and the Need for Integrated Modeling Research in Latin America's Agri‐Food Sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Emiliano Lopez Barrera
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda +3 more
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The Impact of Human Capital on Regional Labor Productivity in Europe
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Economists have long stressed the importance of human capital to the process of economic growth. However, recent cross-country studies have shown that economic growth appears to be unrelated to increases in human capital (Griliches 2000). Benhabib and Spiegel (1994), for example, have found only a weak correlation between growth and increases in human ...
Fischer, Manfred M. +4 more
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Human Capital Spillovers in the Workplace: Labor Diversity and Productivity [PDF]
The paper studies the relationship between human capital spillovers and productivity using a unique longitudinal matched employer–employee dataset of Israeli manufacturing plants that contains individual records on all plant employees.
Navon, Guy
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Constructing a measure of industry-specific human capital using Tobin's q theory [PDF]
In this paper, we develop a measure of industry specific human capital using the Tobin's q theory. The measure is derived from a structural model of heterogeneous knowledge labor, which is homogeneous physical labor embodied with industry specific human ...
Kam-Ki Tang, Yi-Ping Tseng
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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Migrant Labor, Unemployment and Optimal Growth [PDF]
Computational Methods in Social Sciences, 2015 One of the arguments against migrant labor is that it has negative ef- fect on the employment of domestic labor. The question is now if the immigration has also negative effects on the other variables of the econ- omy. To examine these effects we develop
Ioana Viasu
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