Off-farm labor market decisions and agricultural shocks among rural households in Kenya

Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 to address both high uninsured rates and rising health care spending through insurance expansion reforms and efforts to reduce waste. It was expected to have a variety of impacts in areas within the purview of economics, including effects on health care coverage, access to care, financial security, labor market decisions, health, and health care spending. To varying degrees, legislative, executive, and judicial actions have altered its implementation, affecting the extent to which expectations in each of these dimensions have been realized. We review the ACA's reforms, the subsequent actions that countered them, and the expected and realized effects on coverage, access to care, financial security, health, labor market decisions, and health care spending.

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The effect of intimate partner violence on labor market decisions

International Journal of Social Economics ◽

10.1108/ijse-12-2014-0258 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 75-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Fernando Rios-Avila ◽

Gustavo Javier Canavire-Bacarreza

Keyword(s):

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Labor Market ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Indigenous Women ◽

Population Characteristics ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Content Type ◽

Heterogeneous Labor ◽

Labor Market Decisions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the heterogeneous labor market responses of indigenous and non-indigenous women to intimate partner violence (IPV) using information from the 2003 Demographic and Health Survey for Bolivia. Design/methodology/approach This analysis employs an instrumental variable with a Heckman correction approach to account for possible endogeneity problems between IPV and job exit decisions, and the self-selection of women into the labor force. It also analyses the sample across different population characteristics to search for heterogeneity and potential explanations to the observed effects. Findings The results show that the effect of IPV on women’s job exits is stronger among non-indigenous women compared to their indigenous counterparts. These differences could be tied to the cultural differences between these two segments of the population. These results are robust using different methodologies and specifications. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first one to compare the relationship between domestic violence and labor market outcomes in a multi-ethnic developing country, such as Bolivia.

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The development of farm labor market in rural China

China Agricultural Economic Review ◽

10.1108/caer-01-2014-0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 280-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Yi Che ◽

Yan Zhang ◽

Linhui Yu

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Survey Data ◽

Rural China ◽

Probit Model ◽

Farm Labor ◽

Data Set ◽

Content Type ◽

Land Rental ◽

Land Reallocation ◽

Land Size

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine key determinants of farm labor market development in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – Probit, Logit, and IV-Probit model are used to provide pertinent empirical analysis. Findings – Analysis of survey data establishes three facts about the farm labor market in rural China: first, households with high farm endowment are more likely to hire farm labor; second, because of the mismatch between farm ability and land size created by egalitarian land reallocation, households with more land reallocations are more likely to participate in farm labor market to adjust such mismatch; third, land rental market and farm labor market seem to be complementary. These results are robust to alternative model specifications, subsamples, alternative dependent variables, and additional controls. Welfare analysis demonstrates that the farm labor market is conducive to agricultural output. Originality/value – The main contribution of this study is to lay out stylized facts in terms of the development of farm labor market using a unique survey data set.

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A. Econometric models of the labor market in the farm sector of the north central region of the United States, B. The demand for farm labor in the United States

10.31274/rtd-180816-2618 ◽

1973 ◽

Author(s):

Nikolaos Stephanou Martinos

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Labor Market ◽

Central Region ◽

The United States ◽

Econometric Models ◽

Farm Labor ◽

North Central Region ◽

Farm Sector ◽

North Central ◽

The North

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Impacts of Health Services on Agricultural Labor Productivity of Rural Households in Burkina Faso

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review ◽

10.1017/age.2020.19 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Omer Combary ◽

Salimata Traore

Keyword(s):

Health Services ◽

Burkina Faso ◽

Labor Productivity ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Rural Households ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Farm Labor ◽

Agricultural Labor ◽

The Impact

Abstract This article has used the method of instrumental variables to evaluate the impact of health services on the productivity of rural households’ farming labor in Burkina Faso. The distance from the household's homestead to the Health and Social Promotion Center (HSPC) was considered as an instrumental variable. The results revealed that resorting to a HSPC in case of an unexpected illness in the rainy season significantly improves the farm labor productivity by FCFA 3170.5880 per person-day. For improving agricultural productivity, we suggest that public decision-makers should focus on the availability and the quality of HSPC services in rural areas.

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