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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The demand for social insurance: does culture matter? [PDF]

Can different social groups develop different demands for social insurance of risks to health and work? We study this issue across language groups in Switzerland.
Andreas Steinhauer, Josef Zweimüller, Rafael Lalive, Beatrix Brügger   +3 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative Assessment of Work-related Hand-arm Vibration Exposure Among Workers in the Construction, Underground Coal Mining, Wood Working, and Metal Working Industry: The German Hand-arm Vibration Study

Safety and Health at Work
Background: Standardized exposure assessments were conducted to quantify the historical occupational exposure to hand-arm vibration of workers in the German construction, underground coal mining, woodworking, and metalworking industries.
Yi Sun, Frank Bochmann, Winfried Eckert, Benjamin Ernst, Christian Freitag, Uwe Kaulbars, Uwe Nigmann, Christina Samel, Christian van den Berg, Nastaran Raffler   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Insurance Physician Burnout-Stress Factors and Coping Strategies. [PDF]

Medicina (Kaunas), 2023
Oancea C, Cernamoriti A, Gherman DM, Popescu FG.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Proposed statement of position : Auditing the statement of social insurance;Auditing the statement of social insurance; Exposure draft (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), 2004, March 5

, 2004
This proposed Statement of Position (SOP) was issued to assist CPAs in auditing the statement of social insurance. a financial statement required by Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards ...
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Social Insurance Task Force
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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

Social Insurance of Short Spell Sickness [PDF]

This paper looks at social insurance of short term absence from work. The chief concern is with efficiency properties of full coverage. That arrangement is reviewed and criticized here in light of received theory. A main point is that positive loading of
Sjur Didrik Flåm
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

A Model of Income Insurance and Social Norms [PDF]

A large literature on ex ante moral hazard in income insurance emphasizes that the individual can affect the probability of an income loss by choice of lifestyle and hence, the degree of risk-taking.
Persson, Mats, Lindbeck, Assar
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