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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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The Data on Alcohol and Tobacco in Africa (DATA) project
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation Research-driven tobacco and alcohol control policies need country-specific data. Although several institutions collect data on tobacco and alcohol, few tools exist for discovering and accessing these data in ...
Arnalda Vanessa Darsamo +2 more
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Symposium on Labour Force Participation in Canada in the 1990s: An Introduction and Overview [PDF]
A major development in the Canadian labour market in the 1990s has been the decline in labour force participation. This issue of Canadian Business Economics consists of a symposium of articles that explore this issue. The idea for this symposium came out
Andrew Sharpe +3 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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PRODUK DOMESTIK BRUTO DAN ELASTISITAS KESEMPATAN KERJA DI SUMATERA SELATAN
Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan, 2007 This research aim to analysing absorbtion of labour at economics sector in South Sumatera. Economics sector which intended in this research divided superior of three main sector, that is sector A ( agriculture), sector M ( manufacturing) and sector S ...
Rosmiyati Chodijah
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Institutions and Wage Determination: a Multi-Country Approach [PDF]
We present an empirical analysis of the determinants of labour cost in OECD countries, with particular reference to the impact of labour market institutions from 1960 to 1994.
Luca Nunziata
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
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Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
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Inefficiency of automatically linking unemployment benefits to private sector wage rates [PDF]
Labour ...
Mulder, C.B.
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin +3 more
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