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‘An offer you can refuse’: Municipal Activation from the Employers’ Perspective
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesThe Nordic welfare states have a long history of local-level activation to combat unemployment. This study explored how employers perceive and experience the function of municipal activation and its participants.
Anna Angelin, Rickard Ulmestig
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Does Age Matter in HR Decision Making? Four Types of Age Policies in Finnish Work Organizations
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The extension of work careers is one of the key targets of social policy in the EU as well as in Finnish national policy-making. But how is this objective of lengthened work life received at the workplace level?
Anna Pärnänen
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) [PDF]
, 2013 [Excerpt] The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is meant to induce employers to hire members of families receiving benefits under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and other groups thought to experience employment problems ...
Scott, Christine
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Accord on “Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh”: A Breakthrough Agreement?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 This discussion aims to review the emergence of the “Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh” signed on May 13, 2013, and evaluate if it is an international agreement “breakthrough”.
Zillur Rahman
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Training and Employment of People with Disabilities: Australia 2003 [PDF]
, 2004 [Excerpt] Training and Employment of People with Disabilities: Australia 2003 is descriptive in nature. When the ILO commissioned the researchers for the Country Study Series, each was asked to follow the comprehensive research protocol appended to this ...
O\u27Neill, Genene, Sutherland, Marie
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole +6 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 A main objective of European governments is to reduce the number of early retirees, either by reforming pension systems or promoting active aging in working life.
Tove Midtsundstad, Hanne Bogen
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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