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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 +2 more
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Social Inequality and Sociocultures [PDF]
methaodos revista de ciencias sociales, 2020 Inequality is usually studied with a focus on economic factors, such as income and wealth, and with reference to a brief period of time, basically the period of data collection. This article argues that this approach is misleading and does not allow us to understand inequality, let alone society at large.
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Social Inequality and Social Mobility: Is there an Inverse Relation?
, 2018 While accepting that an inverse relation of some kind exists between inequality and mobility, we begin by reviewing criticisms of recent attempts by economists to express this relation in terms of income inequality and mobility – the ‘Great Gatsby Curve’.
E. Bukodi, J. Goldthorpe
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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 +2 more
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Social capital, income inequality, and mortality.
American Journal of Public Health, 1997 OBJECTIVES Recent studies have demonstrated that income inequality is related to mortality rates. It was hypothesized, in this study, that income inequality is related to reduction in social cohesion and that disinvestment in social capital is in turn ...
I. Kawachi +3 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
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Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality
Social Science Research Network, 2020 This paper measures the role of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on an individual's ability to self-isolate during a global pandemic. We use data that tracks 20 million mobile devices and their movements across physical locations, and whether the ...
Lesley Chiou, Catherine Tucker
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The Hybrid Multidimensional Index of Inequality [PDF]
In this paper, we propose a new multidimensional inequality index that satisfies a fundamental set of desired properties. We discuss the case where the social evaluation function of welfare depends simultaneously on unidimensional and multidimensional ...
Abdelkrim Araar
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AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The modernization of pharmaceutical manufacturing is driving a shift from traditional batch processing to continuous alternatives. Synthesizing end‐to‐end optimal (E2EO) manufacturing routes is crucial for the pharmaceutical industry, especially when considering multiple operating modes—such as batch, continuous, or hybrid (containing both ...
Yash Barhate +4 more
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Comparing exergy and heat pump work in distillation systems
AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study compares the exergy supplied to a distillation column with the actual energy consumption of a heat pump‐assisted distillation (HPAD) system. It evaluates the reliability of exergy as a proxy for heat pump work demand in such systems.
Akash Sanjay Nogaja +2 more
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