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New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Gap [PDF]
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance offers in explaining the motherhood wage gap.
Kimmel, Jean, Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Wage determination in Northeast Brazil [PDF]
The author analyzes the labor markets in the Northeast region of Brazil that includes Pernambuco, Bahia, and Ceará states. Her findings show a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics on monthly wages across the wage distribution.
Verner, Dorte
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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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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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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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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Community-Based Income Sharing [PDF]
This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria--the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different ...
Felkey, Amanda, Basu, Kaushik
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Distributional labor market effects of the United States Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Discover Global SocietyThis study conducts an event study to evaluate the impact of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on the United States’ labor market outcomes. Using an event-study design and data from the Current Population Survey (2000–2020), we compare labor ...
Salman Almutawa +2 more
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Wage inequality, labor income taxes, and the notion of social status
Economics: Journal Articles, 2019 The authors investigate the desirability of income taxes when the objective is to mitigate wasteful conspicuous consumption generated by people's status-seeking behavior.
Bilancini Ennio, Boncinelli Leonardo
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal +2 more
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