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Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture

Moser, Petra - 2020

Feeding the world's growing population is one of the most critical policy challenges for the 21st century. With tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most promising path meet the nutrient needs for future...

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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

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The role of agriculture in economic development : a conference of the Universtities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research

Thorbecke, Erik (ed.) - 1969

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The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy

Hayashi, Fumio - 2006

The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...

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Moving out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam

McCaig, Brian - 2013

We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change accounted for a third of the growth in aggregate labor productivity during this period, which averaged 5.1 percent per annum. We discuss the role of reforms in agriculture,...

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Balance-of-payments adjustment policies: Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands

Michaely, Michael - 1968

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Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994

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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry

Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996

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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?

Beaudry, Paul - 2000

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

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Low Wage Services : Interpreting the US - German Difference

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …

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