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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 +5 more
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Impact of the Financial Crisis on the European Labour Market
Littera Scripta, 2014 This article analyzes the main indicators of the labour market in the Czech Republic, Russia and European Union. The authors seek relation of labour market development and global financial crisis followed by recession in European countries.
Larissa Kotova, Maxim Ponomarev, Petr Mulač, Věra Mulačová
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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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Asymmetric Unemployment Rate Dynamics in Australia [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 The unemployment rate in Australia is modelled as an assymmetric and non-linear function of aggregate demand, productivity, real wagesand unemployment benefits. Negative changes in aggregate demand cause the unemployment rate to rise rapidly, while real wage rigidity contributes its to slow adjustment back towards a lower level of unemployment.
Bardsen, Gunnar +2 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Industrial diversity and metropolitan unemployment rate [PDF]
The Annals of Regional Science, 2006 The main goal of our study is to evaluate whether or not industrial diversity helps reduce the frictional unemployment rate of a metropolitan area. We used a data set from Japan’s 118 metropolitan areas. Our analysis shows that although industrial diversity might reduce the frictional unemployment rate of a metropolitan area, its effect is not ...
Mizuno, Keizo +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole +6 more
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PRE-ELECTIONAL DECREASE OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Croatian Operational Research Review, 2013 Opportunistic business cycle models test whether the current government has the ability to reduce unemployment in pre-election period. First opportunistic business cycle models tested regressions using unemployment rate as the dependent variable, and ...
Damjan Miličević, Nada Pleli
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TESTING OKUN'S LAW ON YOUTH AND ADULT UNEMPLOYMENT [PDF]
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2022 Characteristics of unemployment vary, so this study analyzes whether the effect of growth on unemployment differs between youth and adults. This study uses secondary data covering the growth, unemployment, and wages of several age groups.
Susanto J., Udjianto D.W., Windyastuti
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Markov Switching in Disaggregate Unemployment Rates [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 We develop a dynamic factor model with Markov switching to examine secular and business cycle fluctuations in the U.S. unemployment rates. We extract the common dynamics amongst unemployment rates disaggregated for 7 age groups. The framework allows analysis of the contribution of demographic factors to secular changes in unemployment rates.
Marcelle Chauvet +2 more
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