By paying particular attention to the local economic context, this paper analyzes the determinants of non-agricultural employment and earnings in non-agricultural jobs. The empirical analysis is based on the Brazilian Demographic Census, allowing for disaggregated controls for the local economy. Education stands out as one of the key determinants of employment outcome and earnings potential. Fa...

Non-agricultural income has become an important source of rural household income and has brought with a wide inequality in rural China. This paper investigates the determinants of non-agricultural employment as well as non-agricultural income and then assesses the contribution of these determinants to income inequality with the Chinese Academy of Social Science 2003 survey data and a three-step...

abstract agricultural sector is the most important sectors in the country which has a large share in total employment. the increasing supply of labor because population growth and low capacity of production cause the country with high rate of unemployment. therefore, stand with this crisis is one of the most important works of government. in this study using artificial neural network, the emplo...

Climate change is the main phenomenon that directly affects the world environment, and changes in the environment affect economic sectors differently. The most important impacts of climate change would be on enhancing the average global temperature and the decrease in precipitation. The agricultural sector is the first and most affected sector in the climate change. We examined the impact of te...

Byerlee, Derek; Eicher, Carl K. Rural Employment, Migration, and Economic Development: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from Africa. Africa Rural Employment Paper No. 1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Dept. of Agricultural Economics. Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, D.C. Sep 72 53p.; For related document, see PC 008 252 African Rural Employment St...

Article history: Received 28 February 2011 Received in revised form 13 July 2011 Accepted 8 August 2011 Available online 19 September 2011 This paper investigates the endogenous linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricult...

Income from off-farm sources is especially important for land-poor households. However, the pattern of participation in off-farm activities is heterogeneous across space. We explore the determinants of participation in off-farm non-agricultural employment using data for rural Mexico. In particular, we try to understand how the neighborhood and the neighbors’ characteristics and choices affect t...