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Ex‐Ante Assessment of Farm Resilience to Institutional Shocks: A Modeling Approach

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the agent‐based model SWISSland, we simulate farm‐level responses and interactions under two institutional shocks: tariff reductions and direct payment reductions. Using a framework we developed, we assess resilience capacities, resilience attributes, and the provision of private and public goods, following the shock.
Nadja El Benni, Gabriele Mack
wiley   +1 more source

Human Capital Development

open access: yesAsian Development Review, 2010
This paper has two main objectives. First, it assesses and measures the gaps in the stock of human capital across the world. It presents how effectively different regions are improving their stock of human capital, and how long it will take for ...
Hyun H. Son
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Human Capital Mitigate the Negative Impact of Aging on Labor Productivity?

open access: yesSAGE Open
China’s total fertility rate has continued to decline, and the country entered an era of negative population growth starting from 2022. The decline in fertility rates and the extension of life expectancy have accelerated the pace of aging, increasing the
Fange Meng, Xin Wen
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of Knowledge and Usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Extension: Evidence From Tennessee Extension Personnel

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Investment in Human Capital in Reducing the Negative Effects of Automation in Egyptian Factories

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Al-Buḥūṯ Al-Tiǧāriyyaẗ
With the emergence of new technology and the increasing tendency towards automation in industrial manufacturing during the past several decades, the issue of the impact of such processes on labor markets and productivity becomes of vital importance.
نهلة جلال محمود عبدالمولى عبدالمولى
doaj   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the effects of migrant remittances on labor productivity in Burkina Faso: evidence from linear ARDL and non-linear ARDL approaches

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance
This research aims to analyze the effects of migrant remittances on labor productivity in Burkina Faso over the period 1990–2022. This research contributes to the economic literature by examining the role of economic factors such as human capital and ...
Abdoul Hadirou Yoda   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-based industrial enterprise human capital management

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2017
The paper focuses on importance of human capital in development of industrial enterprises, issues of their management and methods of achieving balance between interests of owners and employees.
Glukhov Sergei, Gonchar Evgeniya
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Human Capital, Labors, and Capital on Economic Growth in Barlingmascakeb

open access: yesEko-Regional, 2018
The economic growth of Banjarnegara, Purbalingga, Banyumas, Cilacap and Kebumen regencies or known as Barlingmascakeb region is on average lower than the economic growth of Central Java Province.
Rizqia Mutiara Sani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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