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Trends in family labour, hired labour and contract work on French and Swiss crop farms: The role of agricultural policies [PDF]
The objective of this article is to analyse the trends in on-farm labour use, including own family labour, hired labour and contract work, and to assess the factors driving their evolution in France and in Switzerland during 1990-2007.
Dupraz, Pierre +2 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance? [PDF]
Sozialstaat, Institutionalismus, Wirtschaftswachstum, Beschäftigungseffekt, Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung, Kündigungsschutz, Tarifpolitik, Lohnstruktur, OECD-Staaten, Welfare state, Institutional economics, Economic growth, Employment effect, Labour ...
Ronald Schettkat
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Health Financing and Equity in Healthcare for Disadvantaged Groups in Vietnam
Social Work and SocietyEquity in health means that all people in general and disadvantaged groups in particular receive the same healthcare services, according to their needs, regardless of each person's financial ability and social status.
Thi Xuan Huong Le +5 more
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Overview of the Festschrift [PDF]
Festschrift literally means “celebration-writing” in German. And that is what this volume is. It celebrates the remarkable career of David Slater, which in the best Queen’s University tradition of John Deutsch and Clifford Clark spanned academia and ...
Andrew Sharpe +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Media TheoryHow are media implicated in the expansion of violent labour? Are media playing a larger, more structural role in violent labour than they have in the past? How can we intervene in this material transformation of culture, politics, and economics? The aim
Joshua Synenko, Michael H. Epp
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Non-Monetary Motivation of Staff as a Way to Increase Efficiency of its Work [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2018 The article is dedicated to investigating non-monetary motivation of staff as well as analyzing non-material factors that influence growth of staff productivity.
Shchetinina Ludmila V. +2 more
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