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A note on the linear, logit and probit functional form of the labour force participation rate equation [PDF]

The commonly used specification in regional economic research on labour force participation is the linear probability function. An important alternative recommended in the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics in the contribution of Isserman et al ...
J. Paul Elhorst
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
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Violent Labour and Media

Media Theory
How 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-convex budget sets, institutional constraints and imposition of concavity in a flexible household labor supply model [PDF]

Labour Economics ...
Kapteyn, A.J., Kooreman, P., Soest, A.H.O. van   +2 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
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Three essays on macro labour economics.

, 2018
Jiajia Gu
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EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE [PDF]

In consideration of the Lisbon Agenda, the Romanian Government drew up the National Programme for Reform for 2007-2010, which established national priorities, and ways and tools to achieve economic reform and growth.
Valentina VASILE, Valeriu IOAN-FRANC
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

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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Economic thinking and ethics: an ethical approach for economical issues [PDF]

The worldwide economic crisis of 2007/2008 popularised the ethical questions within economics. Currently, few mainstream economists tackle these questions and the typical curriculum of economics often lacks input on philosophy, ethics and the history of ...
Thieme, Sebastian
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