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Chronic Unemployment: A New Concept for Capturing Weak Labor Market Attachment
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesIn this article, we develop, unfold, and explore the concept of ‘chronic unemployment’ to capture a segment that is weakly attached to the labor market because of repeated spells of unemployment, interrupted only by shorter intervals of temporary ...
Simo Aho +4 more
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Employers and the Implementation of Active Labor Market Policies
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Active labor market policies (ALMPs) are an important instrument for governments in dealing with the new challenges of globalization, flexibilization, and individualization of labor markets.
Thomas Bredgaard, Jon Lystlund Halkjær
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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
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WP 49 - The distribution of responsibility for social security in the Netherlands [PDF]
High levels of unemployment, or high levels of social expenditures as well as the growing demand for a flexible labour force have given new impetus to the world-wide discussion on what model to use for an efficiently operating labour market and in ...
Trudie Schils
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Money, sex and happiness : an empirical study [PDF]
, 2004 The links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness are studied using recent data on a sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations.
Blanchflower, David +5 more
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Reinterpreting the Historicity of the Nordic Model
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 In conventional images of the so-called Nordic model, the strong state is opposed to markets or civil society and co-operation is opposed to conflict.
Pauli Kettunen
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov +4 more
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The productivity enhancing Impacts of the Minimum Wage: Lessons from Denmark, New Zealand and Ireland [PDF]
There has been increasing interest of late in the question of whether minimum wage regulations can raise productivity through the 'shock effect'. This paper explores this question in comparative perspective, by examining the impact of minimum wage ...
Colm McLaughlin
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Knowledge Claims on Municipalities in the Swedish Labor Market Policy
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesActivation is crucial for beating unemployment for those with high thresholds for entering the labor market. The municipalities in Sweden have become an important factor in the activation.
Rickard Ulmestig
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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