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The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Arrears in Russia: Evidence from the RLMS [PDF]
Using the RLMS, this paper re-examines the gender wage gap in Russia from 1994 to 1998. We find that the average gender wage gap was fairly stable during 1994-1996 but that it became wider following the financial crisis of 1998. In particular, low-income
Carmen A. Li +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales +3 more
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Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty?: A Microsimulation Study for Germany [PDF]
In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany.
Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
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Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005 [PDF]
Using wage income tax statistics, we construct continuous series of upper wage income shares in Japan from 1951 to 2005 to document the evolution of top wage incomes and investigate their long-run determinants.
Chiaki Moriguchi
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
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The Effect of Minimum Wage Legislation on Income Equality: A TheoreticalAnalysis [PDF]
Minimum wage legislation is frequently advocated in the belief that itcreates a more nearly equal distribution of income. A one-sector model of general equilibrium is used to analyze a universally applicable minimum wage, and a two-sector model is used ...
J. Huston McCulloch
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Strategic positioning becomes increasingly important as markets mature, particularly in consumer‐facing industries that offer similar products, experiential cues, and values‐based messages. This study offers a conceptual model to examine the strategic positioning factors that motivate consumers to visit one local business over another before ...
Aaron J. Staples +2 more
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Income and expenditure patterns of vegetable cooperators
Annals of Tropical Research, 1994 Generally, the household income of the respondents was relatively low. The household income came from rice production, salaries and wages which included earnings from live-in sons and daughters, those given by relatives and neighbors which included cash
Fe J. Dagoy, Luz Sandra E. Racho
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The Economic Effects of Living Wage Laws: A Provisional Review [PDF]
Nearly 100 cities and local governments in the United States passed living wage laws since the mid-1990s. The central goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects.
Scott Adams, David Neumark
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) play a central role in how agricultural commodity markets process information about supply, demand, and prices. This study examines how global and domestic shocks, as well as policy interventions, are reflected in the similarity of WASDE ...
Zhining Sun +2 more
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