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Assessing the effect of contract farming on sorghum land productivity: An endogenous switching regression approach

open access: yesHeliyon
In low-and middle-income countries, contract farming handles agricultural problems facing small-scale growers. This study analyzes the extent to which sorghum productivity can be enhanced under contract farming in Tanzania.
Thedy Kimbi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Equilibrium Long-Term Labor Contracts [PDF]

open access: yesThe Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1983
The paper presents a labor market equilibrium analysis of implicit contract theory. A two-period, single-good model is used to propose consistent notions of labor market equilibrium for long-term employment contracts both when labor is specialized and cannot move in the second period and when there is free mobility without costs.
openaire   +3 more sources

China\u27s New Labor Contract Law and Protection of Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This Comment will discuss the labor conditions in China that prompted many provisions in the recently enacted Labor Contract Law, and how the new law responds to deficiencies of China\u27s Labor Law to address various labor problems.
Jing, Li
core   +1 more source

New Insights into Atonic Postpartum Hemorrhage: Animal Model Construction Based on Placental Nanodelivery Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study develops a placenta‐targeted nanodelivery system co‐loading HMGB1 protein and the NLRP3 agonist nigericin to establish an animal model of atonic postpartum hemorrhage. The model accurately recapitulates clinical phenotypes, including prolonged labor and uterine contractility dysfunction, while revealing inflammatory activation in placental ...
Jiangxue Qu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Labor contract and transaction costs in the context of the formation of a favorable institutional environment of the firm

open access: yesЕкономіка, управління та адміністрування
A significant component of the contract paradigm of institutionalism should be the labor contract, which is the adaptation of the firm to the conditions of uncertainty of the institutional environment.
Yu.V. Ushchapovsky, E.O. Kulak
doaj   +1 more source

Precarious Work: How Temporary Jobs and Subcontracting Undermine Women, Migrants, and All Workers’ Rights to Decent Work Worldwide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This document provides a number of case studies of US corporations’ use of precarious and contract labor to weaken unions and cut costs. Also describes the effects of these practices on the working conditions and labor rights of women and ...
International Labor Rights Forum
core   +1 more source

Advances in Bioprinting to Model Immune‐Mediated Skin Diseases

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores how 3D bioprinting drives innovation in developing in vitro skin models that mimic immune‐mediated diseases. It highlights current technologies, key applications in studying skin pathologies, and emerging challenges. The review points toward future opportunities for improving disease modeling and advancing therapeutic and cosmetic ...
Andrea Ulloa‐Fernández   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit Contracts, Labor Mobility and Unemployment [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
When workers' search efforts are unobservable, the provision of insurance against firm-specific shocks adversely affects their incentives to find better jobs. In consequence, the equilibrium contract prescribes low wages and underemployment to encourage workers to leave low-productivity firms; and it employs both quits and layoffs to induce separations,
Stiglitz, Joseph E.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Redefining Therapies for Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis: Synergistic Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides, Nanotechnology, and Computational Design

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP)‐loaded nanocarriers provide a multifunctional strategy to combat drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By enhancing intracellular delivery, bypassing efflux pumps, and disrupting bacterial membranes, this platform restores phagolysosome fusion and macrophage function.
Christian S. Carnero Canales   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validity and efficacy of the labor contract

open access: yesDerecho PUCP, 2012
The validity and efficacy of the labor contract as well as cases of nullity and defeasibility import an analysis of scopes of the supplementary application of Civil Code taking into account the peculiarities of Labor Law.
Jorge Toyama
doaj  

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