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Guest Editorial [PDF]

open access: yes
A short presentation and description of the papers that have been selected from the second workshop of the Regional Studies Research Network on Geographical Localisation, Intersectoral Reallocation of Labour and Unemployment Differentials (GLUNLAB II ...
Gianluigi Pelloni, Theodore Panagiotidis
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Is New Labours Third Way New or Just Hot Air in Old Bottles? [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper discusses the main aims and characteristics of the three Ways in British economics and politics: the First Way refers to the period from after WWII to the mid 1970s; the second Way refers to the Conservative Government period starting from 1979;
Grazia Ietto-Gillies
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience [PDF]

open access: yes
Workfare, Wohlfahrtstheorie, Arbeit, Lohn, Vereinigte Staaten, Welfare economics, Labour, Wages, United ...
Jeffrey Grogger, Lynn A. Karoly
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essays in Labour Economics

open access: yes, 2022
The first chapter examines the causal effect of education on individuals' retirement decisions and changes in quality of life after retirement. When estimating the return to education, much of the existing literature assumes implicitly that individuals optimize over their career with a fixed year of retirement ("fixed-retirement-age" assumption). Using
openaire   +2 more sources

The Harris-Todaro Hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes
The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of ‘expected’ wages as the basic equilibrium condition in a segmented but homogeneous labour market, and in so doing it generates an equilibrium level of urban unemployment when ...
M. Ali Khan
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

A Silesian perspective on small and medium-sized enterprises facing the challenges of the green economy

open access: yesInternational Entrepreneurship Review
Objective: This article aims to identify and analyse the opinions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) entrepreneurs operating in the Silesian Voivodeship on the prospects of their companies in relation to the need to implement so-called green ...
Helena Tendera-Właszczuk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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