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Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities [PDF]
Regional differences in unemployment rates in the EU, both within and across member countries, are far more pronounced than regional income disparities. Yet, standard models of the new trade and location theories (new economic geography, new trade theory
Jens Suedekum
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Assessing the Impact of Promotions on Consumer Purchasing Behavior During Crises
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how households modify their food expenditure decisions during times of crisis is essential because consumer purchasing behavior frequently changes during these times. This study looks at these behavioral shifts during the COVID‐19 pandemic, concentrating on how price sensitivity and response to sales promotions changed over the ...
Wafa Mehaba, José María Gil
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Regional Income Disparities in India and Test for Convergence - 1980 to 2006 [PDF]
We examine trends in regional disparities in India over a period of 26 years (1980 to 2006). There are wide and increasing variations in economic performances of states over time.
Pangotra, Prem, Agarwalla, Astha
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn +1 more
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On the Impact of Labor Market Matching on Regional Disparities [PDF]
We propose a model where imperfect matching between firms and workers on local labor markets leads to spatial agglomeration. We show that the occurrence of spatial agglomeration depends on initial size differences in terms of both number of workers and ...
Joe Tharakan, Jean-Philippe Tropeano
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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An agent-based computational approach to explaining persistent spatial unemployment disparities [PDF]
This paper explores possible reasons for persistent spatial unemployment disparities using agent-based computational methods. The method relies on observing the actions of thousands of individuals within an artificial society. The paper models the effect
Ubøe, Jan +2 more
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Current Status and Future Perspectives of Robotic Surgery for Esophagogastric Cancer in Asia
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robotic‐assisted surgery (RAS) has moved from an experimental adjunct to an increasingly established component of gastrointestinal (GI) oncological practice in parts of Asia, a region that carries a disproportionately high burden of gastric and esophageal cancer. Asian surgeons have been among the earliest and most prolific contributors to the
Jia Jun Ang, Jimmy Bok Yan So
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New Member States of the EU: Current Trends in Regional Disparities [PDF]
The main aim of the article is, on the basis of a complex evaluation of regional developing factors, to formulate developing presumptions of the Czech Republic and selected new member states of the EU (Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) after their joining ...
Josef Abrham, Milan Vosta
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim In Japan, the National Clinical Database (NCD), a clinician‐reported registry, and the National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan Open Data (NDB Open Data), an administrative claims database, are both widely used as nationwide surgical databases, but their consistency in capturing national surgical ...
Atomu Kiriyama +3 more
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