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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, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda [PDF]

, 2013
Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive statistics from one of the leading platforms where the ...
Ajay Agrawal, John Horton, Nicola Lacetera, Elizabeth Lyons   +3 more
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The effect of business cycle expectations on the German apprenticeship market: estimating the impact of Covid-19

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
A firm’s expectation about the future business cycle is an important determinant of the decision to train apprentices, especially as German firms typically offer apprenticeships to either fill future skilled worker positions, or as a substitute for other
Samuel Muehlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Bernhard H. Wittek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels, Cord‐Friedrich von Hobe, Miryam Sarah Merk, Thomas Kneib, Oliver Musshoff   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impossibility of a Perfectly Competitive Labor Market [PDF]

, 2006
Using the institutional theory of transaction cost, I demonstrate that the assumptions of the competitive labor market model are internally contradictory and lead to the conclusion that on purely theoretical grounds a perfectly competitive labor market ...
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core   +1 more source

Contracts, Hold-Up, and Labor Markets. [PDF]

Journal of Economic Literature, 1997
The implications for labor markets of contracts to avoid investments without wages increasing with tenure. With turnover costs, fixed but renegotiable wages can protect general investments by both firm and employee, and generate wage stickiness without adversely affecting employment.
openaire   +2 more sources

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Job Satisfaction in Post-Arab Spring Egypt and Tunisia: Between Hope and Hardship

SAGE Open
This study examines job satisfaction in Egypt and Tunisia following the 2011 Arab Spring, with a focus on how labor market conditions and workplace characteristics shaped worker well-being during this critical period of political and economic transition.
Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen, Mesbah Fathy Sharaf   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Labor markets and health: an integrated life course perspective

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2016
Current work and health research is fragmented, focusing on jobs, exposures, specific worker groups, work organization, or employment contracts. An emphasis on the labor market in framing the work and health relationship conceptualizes work not only as ...
Benjamin C Amick, Christopher B McLeod, Ute Bültmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source