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With 2.4 million employees, the military is America's largest employer. Individuals make the military labor force participation decision within the context of other labor market opportunities, which may vary by race and over the business cycle. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic...
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In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...
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Conventional wisdom holds that defense industry consolidation resulted from decreased defense spending. However, we … maintain that understanding dynamic changes in key defense institutions helps provide a more complete explanation for observed … industry and highlight how these changes influenced transaction costs in the defense industry more fully explain the forces …
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We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans, soybean oil, and soybean meal. In the model, some consumers view genetically modified Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and products as weakly inferior to conventional ones; the RR seed is...
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Objective of the paper is to verify which are the determinants of innovations in theItalian food industry and which … are thepresence of firm R&D and of innovations and the independent variables are firmcharacteristics.The results of the … analysis show that, among the determinants of firm R&D intramoenia and of firm innovations in the Italian food industry for the …
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Improving the sustainability of grazed rangelands requires that landowners adopt management innovations. We interviewed … resources, peer influences, and perceived drawbacks of potential innovations (e.g., difficulty of pilot-testing new grazing …
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profitable innovations that traditional knowledge can generate. Inthis context, this study attempts to understand the nature of … drugs. The analysis has been broadly contextualized in thepremise that the traditional knowledge innovations are non …
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evaluate what is termed conditional sigma convergence. Finally, the third paper uses innovations, as proxied by patents, and …
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Master’s final paper reveals the concept and essence of innovations, discusses innovation typologies, analyzes demand … and significance of implementation of innovations, accomplishes theoretical analysis of innovations implementation process … activity is accomplished and the results of implementation of innovations and determining factors survey are analyzed. Survey …
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