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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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Heliyon, 2022 Motorcycle taxi drivers (MTDs) are classified as self-employed informal workers. The interplay between formality and informality is examined in this article from labor and capital perspectives on formalization approaches.
Kritsada Theerakosonphong +1 more
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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Social Assistance and Informality: Examining the link in Colombia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents evidence on the labor market effects of social assistance programs in the short and medium run. We evaluate the impacts of a Conditional Cash Transfer program (Familias en Acción) on informality in Colombia.
Monica Ospina Londoño, Monica +1 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.ResearchConnect is an AI‐powered platform that automates researcher profiling, interdisciplinary team formation, and early‐stage research ideation. By extracting keywords from papers and web sources, it quickly clusters researchers into coherent teams and generates collaborative ideas using large language models. Validation on NSF‐funded projects shows
Akshay Vilas Jadhav +2 more
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Detecting breaks on the long memory: a case about the brazilian unemployment
Economia Aplicada, 2015 This study analyzed the dynamic behavior of the Brazilian unemployment rate, focusing on the persistence level of the series. For this purpose, it was adopted first models of fractionary integration, besides persistence change tests for the series.
Robson Oliveira Lima +2 more
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Situação da juventude brasileira num contexto de extrema flexibilização, “uberização” e desemprego
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2022 In the last five years Brazil lived with reconfigurations in the universe of work. Laws and reforms that had enabled the flexibilization and informality of the worker were overturned, thus weakening rights won through much struggle and political ...
Evelyn Lima, Marcos Vinícius Sales
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract We explored community‐based doulas' perspectives on the acceptability of using formal screening tools to address low rates of mental health screening, diagnosis, and treatment for perinatal anxiety and depression among Black women. Using thematic analysis, we analyzed interview data from 30 community‐based doulas who support Black families ...
Tamara Nelson +5 more
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Informality as deviancy: the problem of difference in the Decent Work Agenda
Diálogo com a Economia CriativaMore than half of workers globally are informal workers; operating in non-standard, temporary employment that is often, but not always, poorly paid and unprotected.
Alisson Rowland
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner +11 more
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