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Japan in der Krise : soziale Herausforderungen und Bewältigungsstrategien
Schad-Seifert, Annette (ed.); Kottmann, Nora (ed.) - Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag <16., 2015, München> … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917872
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Bevölkerung - Familie - Sozialstaat : Kontexte und sozialwissenschaftliche Grundlagen von Familienpolitik
Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893893
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Expected Wages and Other LaborMarket Factors Affecting the LaborForce Decisions of Nurses in the Stateof Iowa
Doorenbos, Todd; Imerman, Mark; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005
The Iowa Department of Public Health has undertaken several independent projects to evaluate various aspects of the labor environment affecting Iowa healthcare over the recent past. This research expands upon the results of these efforts to estimate the effects of a number of wage and nonwage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360879
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Kuku, Yemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
Across nine transition economies, it is the young, educated, English-speaking workers with thebest access to local telecommunications infrastructures that work with computers. Theseworkers earn about 25% more than do workers of comparable observable skills who do not usecomputers. Controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360910
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Off-farm labor supply responses to permanentand transitory farm income
Kwon, Chul-Woo; Orazem, Peter F.; Otto, Daniel M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
transitory components of farm income. Off-farm labor supply of both spouses declines in response to increases in permanent farm … income. Farm wives also reduce off-farm labor supply in response to positive transitory farm income shocks. Consequently, one … mechanism farm households use to smooth their goods consumption when facing fluctuating farm income is to modify their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418932
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Better Dead than GM-Fed? Information and theEffects of Consumers’ Resistance to GM-Foods inHigh-Income Countries
Huffman, Wallace E.; Rousu, Matthew C.; Shogren, Jason F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
This paper addressed the puzzling resistance of Presidents of southern African countries to food aid in 2002, given near certain starvation and long-term negative health effects of malnutrition of their constituents. First, I show that NGOs led by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418935
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Does the Jack of All Trades Hold the Winning Hand?:Comparing the Role of Specialized Versus GeneralSkills in the Returns to an Agricultural Degree
Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kimle, Kevin; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
This paper examines the roles of specialized versus general skills in explaining variation in thereturns to an agriculture degree across majors inside and outside the agricultural industry. Thefocus on returns by sector of employment is motivated by the finding that most agriculturalmajors are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360660
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Iowa Farmers’ Decisions to Enroll in the Average CropRevenue Election (Acre) Program
Edwards, William M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
the direct payments. Those who enrolled farmed more acres and depended moreon crop production for their gross income, and …
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Revenue Protection for Organic Producers: Too Muchor Too Little
Singerman, Ariel; Hart, Chad E.; Lence, Sergio H. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
A framework is developed to examine the 2011 pilot program established by the RiskManagement Agency (RMA) to insure organic crops. Given that for insurance purposes RMAlinks organic crop prices to their conventional counterparts by a fixed percentage, we calibrateour model to reflect the organic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360670