Banks and development : Jewish communities in the Italian Renaissance and current economic performance [PDF]
, 2013 Are differences in local banking development long-lasting? Do they affect long-term economic performance? I answer these questions by relying on an historical development that occurred in Italian cities during the 15th century.
Pascali, Luigi
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Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
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New approaches of source-sink metapopulations decoupling the roles of demography and dispersal [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Source-sink systems are metapopulations of habitat patches with different, and possibly temporally varying, habitat qualities, which are commonly used in ecology to study the fate of spatially extended natural populations. We propose new techniques that allow to disentangle the respective contributions of demography and dispersal to the dynamics and ...
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Rural labor migration, characteristics, and employment patterns [PDF]
Continued industrialization in China and increase in its agricultural productivity imply that surplus rural workers will to be attracted into non-agricultural production activities and, consequently, will have the opportunity to increase their off-farm ...
Diao, Xinshen +2 more
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Organizational Demography and Individual Careers: Structure, Norms, and Outcomes [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] As the terms career choices and opportunity structure suggest, demographic influences on careers operate at multiple levels of analysis: at the individual level, on individuals\u27 perceptions of work environments and career decisions, and at ...
Lawrence, Barbara S, Tolbert, Pamela S
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Impacts of geopolitics and policy on Latin American biodiversity and water resources
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Latin America is a major agricultural producer with important natural resources. Efforts have been made to protect sensitive areas but are hindered by agricultural trade disruptions outside the control of individual countries due to globally integrated crop markets.
Jerome Dumortier +2 more
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On the weak solutions of the McKendrick equation: Existence of demography cycles [PDF]
arXiv, 2006 We develop the qualitative theory of the solutions of the McKendrick partial differential equation of population dynamics. We calculate explicitly the weak solutions of the McKendrick equation and of the Lotka renewal integral equation with time and age dependent birth rate. Mortality modulus is considered age dependent.
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A contribution to the theory of economic development and the demographic transition: fertility reversal under the HIV epidemic [PDF]
, 2020 Luca Gori +3 more
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Technology and job retention among young adults, 1980-98 [PDF]
Although many studies have examined whether job stability and security have declined over time, the role of technology in job turnover has received little attention.
Madeline Zavodny
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Exploring Why Organisations Differ in Board Configuration: Do Organisations’ Age, Size and their Years Being Public Matter? Findings from Greek Listed Manufacturing Organisations [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper building upon several theories (agency theory, stakeholder theory and resource dependence theory) and by utilising data from 161 Greek manufacturing companies that were listed in the Athens Stock Exchange on the 31st December 2008, we ...
Athanasiadis, Konstantinos +3 more
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