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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
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HUMAN CAPITAL AND LABOR FLOWS OUT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA [PDF]
This paper analyses of determinants of agricultural labor flows and the role of human capital in this process on the basis of the Slovenian Labor Force Surveys for the years 1993 to 1999.
Bojnec, Stefan +2 more
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL - AN INVESTMENT IN FUTURE [PDF]
The paper aims to study, reveal and understand one of the most important production factor, considered by some as being labor, understood nowadays as human capital.
DUMITREAN CRINUTA NICOLETA +1 more
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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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Migrant Labor, Unemployment and Optimal Growth [PDF]
Computational Methods in Social Sciences, 2015 One of the arguments against migrant labor is that it has negative ef- fect on the employment of domestic labor. The question is now if the immigration has also negative effects on the other variables of the econ- omy. To examine these effects we develop
Ioana Viasu
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INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH: ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL, PHYSICAL CAPITAL, AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE [PDF]
Management of Sustainable DevelopmentIndonesia’s economic prosperity is measured by its growth, a key United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 8). Despite funding increases, education and healthcare gaps impede workforce development and economic progress.
AGBOLOSOO John Atsu +2 more
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The Employment Advantages of Skilled Urban Areas [PDF]
This paper explores whether the agglomeration of human capital leads to social employment advantages in urban labor markets of a developing country: Colombia.
Ana Maria DIAZ ESCOBAR
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu +4 more
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SELECTION OF DESTINATION AMONG THE ROMANIAN LABOR FORCE MIGRATION, IN TIMES OF ECONOMICAL CRISIS [PDF]
Annals of the University of Petrosani: Economics, 2020 In a world that is constantly moving towards globalization, we can not talk about the homogenization of world economies without considering the migration of labor, a phenomenon encountered in all states for which free movement of citizens is not a ...
ROXANA PLEŞA
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