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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Best Practice Guidelines for Monitoring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Status: Lessons from Scotland [PDF]

, 2011
Context: In this article we present "best practice" guidelines for monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health status in the general population, using routinely collected data.
Frank, John W, Haw, Sally, Frank, John; id_orcid   +2 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing discrimination and violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) persons from Brazil: a mobile health intervention

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) experience higher rates of discrimination and violence when compared to cis, heterosexual peers. However, violent crimes and other hate incidents against SGM persons are consistently not reported and ...
Monica Malta, Angelica Baptista da Silva, Cosme Marcelo Furtado da Silva, Sara LeGrand, Michele Seixas, Bruna Benevides, Clarisse Kalume, Kathryn Whetten   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event

Comparative Migration Studies
This introductory paper, reflecting the Thematic Cluster of four papers, brings together two themes that are important for migration studies: return migration and embedding.
Izabela Grabowska, Louise Ryan
doaj   +1 more source

The Development of Deviant and Delinquent Behavior over the Life Course in the Context of Processes of Social Inequalities

, 2013
Reinecke J, Stemmler M, Sünkel Z, et al. The Development of Deviant and Delinquent Behavior over the Life Course in the Context of Processes of Social Inequalities. SFB 882 Working Paper Series. Vol 17.
Meinert, Julia, Schepers, Deborah, Pöge, Andreas ; https://orcid.org/, Reinecke, Jost, Wallner, Susanne, Arnis, Maria, Kucur-Uysal, Burcu, Sünkel, Zara, Stemmler, Mark, Wittenberg, Jochen, Weiss, Maren   +10 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redistribution and the alleviation of income inequalities: the case of the European Union

Ekonomia i Prawo, 2020
Motivation: The income inequalities are considered an important economic and social problem, because increasing income inequalities may make it difficult to achieve such policy goals as: social cohesion and inclusive development.
Małgorzata Szczepaniak
doaj   +1 more source

Psychosocial resources and social health inequalities in France: Exploratory findings from a general population survey [PDF]

We study the psychosocial determinants of self-assessed health in order to explain social inequalities in health in France. We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions
Paul Dourgnon, Florence Jusot, Michel Grignon   +2 more
core   +2 more sources