Urbanization and rural labor supply: A historical study of Bogotá, Colombia since 1920

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Udall
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Rural Labor

CREAM-SKIMMER OR UNDERDOG? A CASE STUDY OF LABOR TYPE SELECTIVITY IN A RURAL LABOR TRAINING PROGRAM IN CHINA

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 185-210
Author(s):  
YIU POR (VINCENT) CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Rural Labor ◽  
Labor Training ◽  
Cream Skimming ◽  
Clear Method

The mismatch between a laborer’s abilities and the goals set forth by a training program is one of the most pressing concerns for a labor training program. This paper looks at the incentives for a laborer to enter a rural labor training program and demonstrates a clear method of analyzing the participation issues using instrumental regressions on the data collected from a case study a “poverty city” in the Zhejiang province, China. This paper shows that a pre-program wage drop may induce workers of a higher caliber to enter the training program and cause a “cream-skimming” effect on its outcome because of the S-shaped labor supply curve for the rural population who live in poverty. The result of the cream-skimming effect enhances the traditional view that a pre-program wage drop may reduce “opportunity cost” to enter a training program. This extension can be handy to revise future designs of rural labor training programs.

scholarly journals Models of Labor Supply and Demand in the Rural Labor Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 254-261
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Rural Labor ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Labor Surplus ◽  
Labor Supply And Demand ◽  
Effective Use

The article discusses the effective use of economic and mathematical methods in the field of rural employment in labor-surplus regions. A large place in the work belongs to the development of a criterion for the optimality of the labor market and limitations in the model. The main focus is on optimizing the supply and demand of labor in rural areas.

Long recall loss in estimates of rural labor supply: Evidence from phone surveys in Malawi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Ambler ◽  
Sylvan Herskowitz ◽  
Mywish K. Maredia
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Rural Labor

scholarly journals Household Health and Cropland Abandonment in Rural China: Theoretical Mechanism and Empirical Evidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Deng ◽  
Miao Zeng ◽  
Dingde Xu ◽  
Feng Wei ◽  
Yanbin Qi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Rural Labor ◽  
Cropland Abandonment ◽  
Theoretical Mechanism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Prior studies have fully explored the impacts of rural labor migration on land use forms. In contrast to prior studies, this study focuses on the health status of rural households and its quantitative impacts on cropland abandonment (CA). More specifically, under the guidance of the theoretical mechanism of “household health affects CA by labor supply”, this study employs survey data from 8031 households collected in 27 Chinese provinces in 2014 to explore the quantitative impacts of household health on CA. The results are as follows. (1) The higher the level of household health is, the less CA there is. (2) Compared with males, the impact of female health status on CA is more obvious. Thus, the relationship between household health and CA matters, not only because it may help to theoretically enhance the understanding of the importance of health in peasant households, but also because it may help to practically provide references for effective policies of CA from the perspective of rural medical services.

Implications of higher retirement age for the labor market

2017 ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ivanova ◽  
A. Balaev ◽  
E. Gurvich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Demographic Projections ◽  
The Impact

The paper considers the impact of the increase in retirement age on labor supply and economic growth. Combining own estimates of labor participation and demographic projections by the Rosstat, the authors predict marked fall in the labor force (by 5.6 million persons over 2016-2030). Labor demand is also going down but to a lesser degree. If vigorous measures are not implemented, the labor force shortage will reach 6% of the labor force by the period end, thus restraining economic growth. Even rapid and ambitious increase in the retirement age (by 1 year each year to 65 years for both men and women) can only partially mitigate the adverse consequences of demographic trends.

Liberty, Property and Popular Politics

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
British History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
The University

Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Dickinson's students, friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute to a remarkable scholarly career. Dickinson's work and career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The book includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an impressive breadth of coverage.

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