Italian researcher from McGill University, Francesco Amodio, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled "Labor Market Power, Self-employment, and Development." His paper tries to compare the labor markets in lower-income countries with those of high-income countries. "there are few things that stand out: in poor countries, we typically see in the average local labor market a small number of organizations that are hiring workers, and at the same time a lot of workers pursue self-employment precisely because wages are low, or wages opportunity are scars."
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Este artÃculo fue originalmente publicado el 14 de diciembre de 2022 en El PaÃs Planeta Futuro. Los autores son el investigador junior del NCID Luis A. Brito y Javier Larequi. Puede consultar el artÃculo original aquÃ. Imagen de ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
Karen Macours, chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE), and senior researcher (directrice de recherche) at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “Comparative Advantage and Technology Diffusion: a Menu-based Approach to Disseminationâ€. The speaker explained that a simple version of the “contact farmer†extension model can meaningfully increas...