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Marriage, fertility, and labor market prospects in the United States, 1960-2000
Deere, Donald R. (contributor) - 2005
individuals choose marriage because of the gains from joint production ofchild quality as well as the division of labor, the … become less desirable, and consequently a marriage market with more positiveassortative mating will be observed.The increase … in female labor market participation is larger for highly-educatedwomen but the decrease in marriage rates is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465031
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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
McMillen, Brooke - 2008
of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474989
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Foreign Takeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary
Csengodi, Sandor; Jungnickel, Rolf; Urban, Dieter - 2005
This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442350
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2010
The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442649
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The Adoption of Water Conservation and Intensification Technologies and Farm Income: A Propensity Score Analysis for Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana
Faltermeier, Liane; Abdulai, Awudu - 2008
This study uses cross-sectional data of 342 small-scale lowland rice farmers in Northern Region of Ghana to analyze the impact of the adoption decision of bund construction and seed dibbling on net returns, input demand and output supply. Matching was conducted based on Mahalanobis distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443265
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2008
The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of competition from other local contractors and spot markets. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443270
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International research collaboration, research team performance, and scientific and; technological capabilities in colombia -a bottom-up perspective
Ordonez-Matamoros, Gonzalo - 2008
This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476094
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The Echo of Job Displacement
Eliason, Marcus; Storrie, Donald - 2003
This paper examines whether the loss of a job increases the likelihood of future difficulties on the labour market. We study displacement resulting from all plant closures (with ten or more employees) in Sweden in 1987 and follow their labor market outcome up to 1999. The control group is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477545
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International Research Collaboration, Research Team Performance, and Scientific and Technological Capabilities in Colombia: A Bottom-Up Perspective
Ordonez-Matamoros, Gonzalo - 2008
This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463378
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Microanalyses of Voting, Regulation and Higher Education
Meya, Johannes - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324349