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Off-farm employment has been an integral part of the emerging structure of production agriculture in the South. Government farm program payments, farm structure, and strong non-farm economy have important impact on labor allocation, farm and non-farm labor, decision of farm operators. The...
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important. The demand for adequately prepared higher education graduates must be met by the US Food, Agriculture, and Natural … Resources Education System. Without accurate forecasts of the human resource needs of the food sector of the economy, adequate …
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This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso … results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary … education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be …
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The emphasis of education as a driving force for the growth of agricultural productivity can be dated back to the early … consequently obscure the true contribution of education in agricultural production. This study presents a more efficient version to … testing the hypothesis that education plays a key role in agricultural development using a switching regression model. Because …
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transition to non-agricultural labor markets depends on the distance to economic centers and household education. In particular …, post-primary education significantly increases the benefit from the local spatial connectivity improvement in remote areas … and labor transition to non-agricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually increasing …
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specifically determine the relationship between the initial economic position of households and education on income growth and … evidence of (low) income persistence for the poor and those in the low agricultural potential areas that lack higher education … of poverty traps. As expected, higher education seems to eliminate the low income persistence for these vulnerable groups …
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increase the levelof competitiveness. Finally we analyze Serbian agricultural education system and give some instructions for …
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Education became one of the largest sub-system of modern societies in the past century. The role of education is no … associated with Theodore W. Schulz. According to his presumptions, the people make investments through education and training … explanations created to justify the contribution of education to economic development. The most significant from among them are as …
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