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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Perceptions of Preservice Teachers’ E-Portfolios for Hiring Decisions
Georgia Educational Researcher, 2015 Preservice teachers often build E-portfolios of their work prior to graduation, but their use beyond the college classroom is not clear. To identify if E-portfolios are used during the teacher hiring process, 170 administrators from 84 (K-12) schools in ...
Molly Zhou, Marilyn Helms
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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach +5 more
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The costs of hiring skilled workers
, 2011 This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs for skilled workers. We use novel Swiss administrative firm-level survey data that provide direct and detailed measures of hiring costs, including recruitment and adaptation.
Samuel Muehlemannb +8 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Journal of New LibrarianshipAs libraries grapple with declining budgets, shifting priorities, high rates of turnover, vacancies, the “new normal,” and the persistent push to “do more with less,” an increasing number of library workers have found that their roles have deviated from
Sharona Ginsberg
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Diversity in Public Library Boards: Perspectives of Board Members
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2020 The initial aim of this study was to learn if there was any diversity in ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or disability among public library board members. Through participant interviews, this study reports on member perceptions of diversity in the
Maha Kumaran, Leanne Templeton
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Data from 990 Public Real-World Job Advertisements Organized by O*NET Categories
Journal of Open Psychology Data, 2022 Text from 990 job advertisements were downloaded from companies on the Fortune 500 2020 list of top companies. These job ads covered 32 different job titles from eight industries.
Steven Zhou +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Nepotistic Hiring and Poverty From Cultural, Social Class, and Situational Perspectives
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Being poor can influence how one makes ethical decisions in various fields. Nepotism is one such area, emerging as kinship-based favoritism in the job market.
Luke Jain, Éva Gál, Gábor Orosz
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