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| Sharif, Najma R.; Dar, Atul A.. |
| Most studies of wage differentials explain such differentials in terms of factors like gender, race, and human capital. But systematic gaps in earnings can arise even among homogenous individuals as a result of asymmetric employer and worker information gaps, thereby reflecting labour market inefficiency. This paper estimates these gaps in terms of wage differentials across various population groups in Canada. We examine 21 populations groups, which include a number of immigrant groups as well. Information gaps are likely to be important in the context of immigrants, especially those new to Canadian labour markets. Our special interest is not only to compare information gaps of immigrant and other population groups, but also to assess whether (and how)... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Labour markets; Information gaps; Wages; Labor and Human Capital; J31; J61; J64. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50162 |
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| Kaur, Baljinder; Singh, J.M.; Garg, B.R.; Singh, Jasdev; Singh, Satwinder. |
| In Punjab, the influx of migrant labour particularly in agriculture sector started with the green revolution and picked up subsequently. Due to monoculture in the cropping pattern, the state has become largely dependent on migrant labourers for various agricultural operations. The influx of seasonal as well as permanent labour from outside has led to various socio-economic problems in Punjab. In the wake of this, the present study was purposively conducted in the Central Zone of Punjab for the year 2011 to find the causes and impact of labour in-migration in Punjab. A total of 105 respondents belonging to the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Nepal constituted the sample frame. The results have revealed that better income and... |
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Palavras-chave: Labour migration; Long-term migration; Short-term migration; Remittances; In-migration; Agricultural and Food Policy; J61; J62; R23. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119397 |
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| Thorat, V.A.; Dhekale, J.S.; Patil, H.K.; Tilekar, S.N.. |
| The study has identified the factors responsible for rural-urban migration based on 120 sample respondents each of migrants and non-migrants spread over two districts, viz. Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg of Konkan region of Maharashtra by employing the logit model. The study has highlighted the importance of rural development programs like MGNREGA that are being implemented by the government with a view to provide employment and income to the rural population in the country. It has also shown that for both migrant and non-migrant households,, agriculture was the major source of income, and their consumption expenditure was more than the production expenditure. It has also been observed that migration has a positive impact on income, expenditure and net savings... |
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Palavras-chave: Migration; Logit; Variable inflation factor; Odds ratio; Agricultural and Food Policy; J11; J61; C13; R23. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119399 |
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| Sundaravaradarajan, K.R.; Sivakumar, P.; Jahanmohan, K.R.. |
| This study has been conducted in the backward district of Perambalur, which is a less resource-endowed district of Tamil Nadu, with the following objectives: (i) to identify the major causes and empirically determine the key correlates of agricultural labour migration in the study area, and (ii) to identify the causes for rural out-migration. The study has been conducted by taking landless (group I) and landed (group II) respondents. The Garatte ranking of the causes of migration has revealed that of the ten push factors and ten pull factors (both economic and non-economic), lack of continuous employment at place of origin is at the first rank with mean score of 77 and 78 per cent for group I and group II, respectively, followed by low wages at place of... |
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Palavras-chave: Agricultural labour; Labour migration; Tamil Nadu; Agricultural and Food Policy; J61; R23. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119401 |
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| Adamson, Dwight W.; Waugh, Andrew. |
| Farm structure is experiencing a persistent change. Since the early 1980s, US farms specializing in crops have constantly declined in number and grown in average size. Crop production has moved to large farms at the expense of small and medium sized farms. This shift in farm structure to more concentrated production is complex. Market forces such as technological change and changing factor input prices are likely contributors as they have been in the past. Another factor that has generated considerable interest is the role of commodity program payments. Commodity payments are tied to a farm’s current or historical production. Therefore, larger farms tend to receive the greatest share of commodity program payments. However, the extent that commodity... |
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Palavras-chave: Farm Operator; Entry; Exit; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Q12; J61; J62. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124053 |
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| Rosenzweig, Mark R.. |
| A framework for understanding the determinants in the variation in the pricing of skills across countries and the model underlying the Mincer specification of wages that is used widely to estimate the relationship between schooling and wages are described. A method for identifying skill prices and for testing the Mincer model, using wages and the human capital attributes of workers located around the world, is discussed. A global wage equation that nests the Mincer specification is estimated that provides skill price estimates for 140 countries. The estimates reject the Mincer model. The skill price estimates indicate that variation in skill prices dominates the cross-country variation in schooling levels or rates of return to schooling in accounting for... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Wage; Skill price; International migration; Inequality; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; J31; J61. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56757 |
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| Duncan, Natasha T.; Waldorf, Brigitte S.. |
| The United States provides a path to citizenship for its newcomers. Unlike other immigration countries, however, the United States does not have policies that ease assimilation or directly promote naturalization such as easily accessible and widely advertised language and civic instruction courses. Immigrants are by and large left on their own when facing legal and financial barriers or seeking instruction to pass the citizenship test. Not surprisingly, thus, we find that immigrants’ attributes such as educational attainment, English language proficiency, and income affect naturalization rates. This paper analyzes whether naturalization rates are also affected by neighborhood characteristics and informal networks for assistance and information. Towards... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: US Immigration; Assimilation; Caribbean Immigrants; Labor and Human Capital; J15; J61. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46026 |
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| Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C.. |
| How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector version of the Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) model with a continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U.S. The model predicts that while cheaper offshoring reduces the share of natives among less skilled workers, cheaper immigration does not, but rather reduces the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Employment; Production tasks; Immigrants; Offshoring; Labor and Human Capital; F22; F23; J24; J61. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98462 |
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| Ahuja, Usha Rani; Tyagi, Dushayant; Chauhan, Sonia; Chaudhary, Khyali Ram. |
| The study conducted in the state of Haryana has investigated the impact of implementation of MGNREGA in two districts — one agriculturally-advanced (Karnal) and the other agriculturally-backward (Mewat). Besides demographic characteristics, the paper has investigated the difference in the employment status, income, landholding size, herd size and other assets of the sample farm households in these two districts by taking 120 farm families, 60 from each district. The impact of MGNREGA within a district has also been studied in terms of income and employment security, migration, debt repayment, extent of participation in MGNREGA works, socio-economic status, etc. by seeking information from 30 participating and 30 nonparticipating households in MGNREGA works... |
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Palavras-chave: MGNREGA; Rural employment; Rural-urban migration; Haryana; Agricultural and Food Policy; J23; J61. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119403 |
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