I n this study, the Regional Input- Output Structural Decomposition Analysis (I-O SDA) is used to investigate the effects of technological changes on employment in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran during 2006-2011. This paper develops the SDA method to decompose the technological change from two viewpoints of supply and demand for intermediate inputs in each sector. These chan...

The purpose of this study is to determine the magnitude of the fisheries sector along the Amazon river in Brazil. Total income and employment was estimated for the principal activities comprising the fisheries sector: fish processing plants, stores selling fishing gear, gas stations, restaurants, ice factories, and boatyards based on interviews conducted with businesses in 15 cities along the A...

A remarkable feature of the current U.S. economic expansion has been its ability to shrug off the adverse effects of financial crises and economic slowdowns around the world for nearly two years. Employment has been expanding smartly and unemployment has continued to edge down. Recently, however, foreign-sector developments have triggered a sizable shift in the sectoral composition of U.S. empl...

Using a representative survey combined with register data on long-term labour market outcomes, this paper examines how personality traits predict sorting into public and private sector employment among prime working-age individuals. To gain deeper insights the dynamic dimensions of process, we also study role in decisions to enter or exit work. Our robust results show that workers are more soci...

A common and longstanding assumption in the economic growth literature has been that total factor productivity growth is lower in the agriculture sector than in the rest of the economy. Using a stochastic production frontier finite mixture model, labor productivity change is decomposed into catch-up, technological change and factor accumulation effects and stochastic shocks. This decomposition ...

Major debates on the industrialization of agrarian economies view labor mobility—sectoral and spatial, from agriculture to industry and from villages and small towns to cities—as central to understanding the pace and nature of industrialization. Many see labor mobility as the result of the commercialization and capitalization of agriculture, which leads to an increasing number of peasants who a...

T his study examines the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and employment in the Indonesia construction service sector. The method used in this study is Panel VECM Granger. The data used are the data of FDI inflow and employment in the construction sector in some provinces, namely North Sumatra, Riau, Jakarta, West Java, East Java, and...

The agriculture sector is facing disguised unemployment and the workforce migrating from farm to non-farm sector. This study examines rural employment patterns in Uttar Pradesh, India, identify drivers of household choices impact increased income levels on poverty. shift agricultural sector-across all expenditure landholding classes-is drastic. If increases, rises poverty falls. Promoting crop ...

Encouraging agricultural and forestry carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation is a necessary tool to meet U.S. emissions targets at minimum cost, but implementation challenges have relegated the agriculture and forestry sector to a marginal role in national and international cap-and-trade and energy policies, including those currently being discussed by U.S. legislators. However, the...