A stylized fact of economic development is the structural transformation of countries from traditional, mainly agricultural societies to modern economies dominated by manufacturing and services. In this paper we provide an endogenous growth model to illuminate the role of entrepreneurial start-up firms in structural economic transformation. We follow the Lewis-model’s distinction between a trad...

An important objective of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) is to create durable community asset and private asset which can enhance agricultural production as well profitability of the farmers through increasing their Gross Cropped area. It can also help the farm households to generate few extra incomes through seeking employment in this programme. An investigation is here ...

This paper is motivated by the fact that (part-time) individual farming is commonly observed among rural households in a number of transition economies but it is not clear prima facie if such resource allocation is optimal. A conceptual model of household labor allocation between individual farming and off-farm wage employment is developed. The model explicitly accounts for the role of househol...

This study aims to analyze the effect of provincial minimum wage (UMP) and land area on Absorption Labor in Agricultural Sector Indonesian Provinces. The research was conducted 34 provinces from 2015 2020. analytical method used is fixed panel data regression analysis. results showed that partially UMP had no employment, while agricultural an employment absorption, simultaneously provinces. Wes...

The paper has scrutinized the nexus among poverty, economic growth, employment and dependency ratio in developing countries. The primary intension behind this study is to find out the association between variables such as poverty, economic growth, agricultural and industrial employment and dependency ratio due to the gap in the existing literature. This study fully relies on cross country data ...

rural industrialization or establishing industries in rural area as an important and most prevalent procedure for non agricultural economic development is discussed in this article. lack of main agricultural production parameters like water resource, rich and suitable soil, in these areas, in spite of plenty of manpower, directs the situation to day by day immigration rate from rural areas. ind...

Employment outcomes from foreign land-based agricultural investments (FAI) are contested despite existence of paucity in literature on why individuals seek such employment. This paper assesses individuals’ motives for seeking or not employment FAI farms using multiple correspondence and cluster analysis to understand patterns their association with age, gender household poverty. Analysis based ...