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Do living wage ordinances reduce urban poverty?
Neumark, David; Adams, Scott J. - 2000 - rev
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001464012
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Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?
Neumark, David - 2000
Many cities in the United States have recently passed living wage ordinances. These ordinances typically mandate that businesses under contract with the city or, in some cases, receiving assistance from the city, must pay their workers a wage sufficient to support a family financially. To date,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471164
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Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?
Neumark, David; Adams, Scott J. - 2022
Many cities in the United States have recently passed living wage ordinances. These ordinances typically mandate that businesses under contract with the city or, in some cases, receiving assistance from the city, must pay their workers a wage sufficient to support a family financially. To date,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324124
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Household-level livestock marketing behavior among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian pastoralists
Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor);  … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003113921
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An ordered Tobit model of market participation : evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia
Bellemare, Marc F. (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003114250
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Modeling Feedback between Economic and Biophysical Systems in Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya : The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model
Stephens, Emma C. - 2011
Kenya. System dynamics modeling is well-suited to examining the complex interactions and feedback between farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124962
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Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands : The Marsabit Pilot
Mude, Andrew - 2013
In Kenya's arid and semi arid lands (ASALs), drought is the most pervasive hazard, natural or otherwise, encountered by … households on a widespread level. This is especially true for northern Kenya, where more than 3 million pastoralist households … are regularly hit by increasingly severe droughts. In the past 100 years, northern Kenya recorded 28 major droughts, 4 of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093437
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Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality : Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya
Mude, Andrew G. - 2013
Northern Kenya from the considerable drought‐related livestock mortality risk that they face. Detailing the conditions that … make the pastoral economy in Northern Kenya an ideal candidate for the provision of index‐based insurance products, the … district of Northern Kenya in early 2010 …
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Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists
Barrett, Christopher B. - 2008
Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) regularly confront climatic shocks triggering massive herd die-offs and loss of scarce wealth. On the surface, it appears puzzling that pastoralists do not make extensive use of livestock markets to offload animals when climatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727423
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Cash Transfers and Index Insurance : A Comparative Impact Analysis from Northern Kenya
Jensen, Nathaniel Duane - 2018
exogenous variation in program participation and panel data from Kenya to compare the causal impacts of a cash transfer program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937552