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Engendering politics and policy: the legacy of New Labour [PDF]
, 2010 This article analyses the capacity of a single political party - New Labour in the UK - to engender politics and policy. It draws on Kingdon's (1984) policy streams approach to demonstrate how with the election of New Labour in 1997 a window of ...
Annesley, Claire +8 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Policy & Society, 2020 Across the OECD world, social investment policies are on the rise, which Hemerijck describes as a ‘quiet paradigm revolution’. Whilst Nordic countries are typically considered the pioneers in social investment policies, we observe that latecomer ...
Timo Fleckenstein, Soohyun Christine Lee
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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A short survey of Austrian labour market [PDF]
, 2008 Among the criteria used to compare the economic performance of countries the conditions prevailing on labour markets are usually of great interest.
Böhm, Bernhard
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Introduction: Labour market policy as a field of government action and an object of research [PDF]
, 2023 This chapter provides an introduction to the handbook as a whole. It starts by giving a stylised overview of the development over time of labour market policy in affluent democracies, emphasising the growing complexification of state intervention in this
Durazzi N., Clegg D.
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Spatial Labour Market Inequality and Social Protection in the UK
LSE Public Policy ReviewSpatial inequality in economic outcomes is increasingly seen as a problem for national economies. This paper considers spatial inequality in the UK labour market, its causes, and potential policy solutions.
Neil Lee, Mark Fransham, Pawel Bukowski
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Active Labour Market Programmes in Poland Between 2005 and 2010
Comparative Economic Research, 2013 High unemployment in Poland is a major socio-economic problem. The unemployment rate in Poland reached the level of 16.7% in 2005, 9.3% in 2010 and 9.7% in 2011. Unemployment in Poland is mainly structural, which is reflected in the structural imbalances
Walentyna Kwiatkowska
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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