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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
wiley   +1 more source

Do Ends Justify Means? Feminist Economics Perspectives on the Business Case for Gender Equality in the UK Labour Market

e-cadernos ces, 2009
This paper intends to explore a feminist economics perspective on business case arguments for gender equality in the UK labour market, where there are significant inequalities between men and women.
Emily Thomson
doaj   +1 more source

An empirical test of Holmstroem's principal-agent model that takes tax and signally hypotheses explicitly into account [PDF]

Management;Incentives;labour ...
Barkema, H.G.
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Governing the mobility of skills [PDF]

, 2008
About the book: This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment.
Raghuram, Parvati
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Climate Change Mitigation in the Dairy Sector: Uncovering Heterogeneity Through Eco‐Efficiency Clubs

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining climate change goals with economic targets is crucial for the dairy sector, which is a significant contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. In this paper, we assess economic and climate change implications of dairy production with panel data of Irish dairy farms from 2013 to 2021.
Doris Läpple, Christian Stetter, Cathal Buckley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Spatial Allocation of Labour Force and Employment Protection Legislation (EPL)

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2019
The paper introduces a model of how workers rationally decide to which country within an area of monetary and economic integration they will move for the purposes of living and working.
Gamito Carlos Coca, Baltos Georgios
doaj   +1 more source

Wage differentials and employment in a two-sector model with a dual labour market [PDF]

Production Function;Wage Differentials;labour ...
Klundert, T.C.M.J. van de
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

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, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wage moderating effects of corporatism: Decentralized versus centralized wage setting in a union, firm, government context [PDF]

Trade Unions;Corporatism;labour ...
Mulder, C.B.
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What nudges will matter? An empirical study of female joblessness [PDF]

, 2013
The purpose of this empirical study is to use an interdisciplinary approach across labour economics, behavioural economics and social economics to explain female labour market statuses, in particular joblessness choices and conditions.
Cagliesi, Gabriella, Hawkes, Denise
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