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OFF-FARM WORK PARTICIPATION, OFF-FARM LABOR SUPPLY AND ON-FARM LABOR DEMAND OF U.S. FARM OPERATORS
Huffman, Wallace E.; El-Osta, Hisham S. - 1997
An agricultural household model provides the framework for modeling off-farm work participation and off-farm and on-farm work decisions of farm operators. The empirical results are obtained from fitting the econometric model to data from a large national survey. In the estimated structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443109
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Childhood Obesity Risk and the Role of Primary Caregivers: A Triangular Semi-parametric Simultaneous Equations Approach
Xue, Hong; You, Wen; Nayga, Rodolfo M. - 2011
This essay investigates the impacts of primary care giver’s (PCG) time allocation and food expenditure choices on childhood obesity using national panel study of income dynamic (PSID) data. A triangular system of equations is derived and estimated under parametric and semi-parametric model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444319
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Do decoupled payments really encourage farmers to work more off farm? A micro-level analysis of incentives and preferences
Douarin, Elodie - 2008
According to neo-classical theory, farmoperators’ labour allocation is determined by therelative wage they can earn from their labour on and offthe farm. At the equilibrium, time should be allocated sothat the marginal returns from on- and off-farm workare equal. Thus, a move from coupled to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445700
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Households' Time Allocation to Micro Credit
Akhimienmhonan, Douglas; Fulton, Murray E. - 2011
This paper presents two models in explaining time allocation to micro credit (MC) by households in North America. The single-period model explains the optimal allocation of time to a microenterprise in any given period, conditional on the household having self-selected into the MC program. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446714
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Parental time and children's obesity measures: a theoretical and empirical investigation
Davis, George C. (contributor); M., Nayga Jr. (contributor) - 2005
The increased prevalence of childhood obesity is a major concern for society. Thisstudy aims at exploring the influence of the parents (especially parental time allocationchoices) on children’s obesity-related health outcomes and examining the potentialdifferences between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464817
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Labor Supply, Informal Economy and Russian Transition
Bouev, Maxim - 2001
The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476791
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Die Einfl?sse von Haushaltsstruktur und Konjunktur auf die Zeitallokation: eine empirische Analyse
de Beisac, Andr? - 2007
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden verschiedene Elemente ?konomischer Analyse gemeinsam verwendet, um einen st?rkeren Blick in das ?konomische Verhalten von Haushalten zu erm?glichen. In der mikro?konomischen Theorie wird Haushaltsarbeit nur in seltenen F?llen als dritte Alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482295
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Markteintritt deutscher KMU in Japan ? eine theoretische und empirische Analyse anhand der Medizintechnikindustrie
Toto, Serkan - 2009
ger?t Japan im Zuge der Hinwendung deutscher Firmen nach China in der Wahrnehmung der ?ffentlichkeit zunehmend in den …??ten Absatzmarktes der Welt. Die Kernfrage dieser Untersuchung lautet: Welche Methoden des Markteintritts in Japan existieren f?r diese … von KMU besonderer Bezug genommen. Im Rahmen einer ausf?hrlichen Analyse m?glicher Markteintrittsoptionen in Japan wird im …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485594
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Implications of lifting the ban on the export of Alaskan crude oil
2008
Japanese market and the US West Coast market. Japan is the principal potential export market for Alaskan crude oil. Exports to …
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Navy mobility fuels forecasting system report: World petroleum trade forecasts for the year 2000
Das, S. - 2008
coming from Japan, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. Several regions, the Far East, Japan, Latin American, and Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436664