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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in …This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the …
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scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in …This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991823
labor. It promotes the vitality and growth of labor unions through a shared responsibility with management for growth and … manufacturing, provides a brief history of manufacturing, and even reveals the dark side of Toyota’s system that opens another …
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The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time, the sector has maintained a real growth rate of 3.4 percent per year, well above the population growth rate of...
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of labor-intensive agricultural technologies, to extend and strengthen school systems in rural areas, to promote … competition in off-farm labor markets, and to eliminate discrimination against women. The authors conclude that there is no …
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This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation in employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by assigning them a 0, 1, 5, 50, 75, or 100 percent chance of real...
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unanticipated wave of immigration can be integrated within the local labor market without any significant long-term adverse economic …
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American dream of good jobs, fair pay, and opportunities for all. In this call to action for families, business, labor, and … highly as they do investors of financial capital, and we need a renewed labor movement to give workers a stronger voice …. Kochan lays out an agenda for working families in the twenty-first century that calls for business, labor, government, and …
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. It also presents many applications in all areas of economics, especially labor economics, industrial organization, and …
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