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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Labor Migrants at Risk: Formal and Informal Insurance Strategies among Central Asians in Moscow
Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2023 This article studies formal and informal risk-mitigating practices among Central Asian labor migrants in Moscow. The migration context is inherently uncertain, implying that migrants may try to protect themselves against potential risks by resorting to ...
Sandra Pellet, Marine de Talancé
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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LABOUR MARKET INSERTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA DEVELOPMENT REGION [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2013 For young people, the transition from education to employment is an important process. This process can varysignificantly among different countries and national systems depending on the duration and nature of the transition, thelevel and persistence of ...
MARIANA BĂLAN, RALUCA I. IORGULESCU
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts [PDF]
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of ...
Picard, Pierre M., Wildasin, David
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Choice of Remuneration Regime in Fisheries: The Case of Hawaii's Longline Fisheries
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009 One of the most prominent features of remuneration in Hawaii's longline fisheries industry has been the norm of share contract regimes. This paper investigates whether the use of the share contract regime is positively correlated to increased economic ...
Quang Nguyen, PingSun Leung
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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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EleutheraThe objective of this article is to investigate the working conditions of graduate social workers from three universities in Cali, Colombia, focusing on their perceptions of their workload, salaries, contracts and life projects.
Vivian Andrea Ladino-Mosquera +1 more
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