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The aim of this paper is to understand the extent of e-business utilisation in the horticulture supply chain, an area where there is little research coverage. To achieve this, we assess the current and planned adoption of e-business technologies and functions. Data were collected through a...
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In this paper we use the Continuous Sample of Working Histories 2005 (MCVL2005) to analyze the earnings assimilation of … underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …
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. Consequently, higher substitutability is associated with greater polarization in wealth, and long-run distributions that are …
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hardly recover from the financial crisis which started in 2008, the European Union existing a clear tendency of polarization …
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Increasing political polarization implies that each election expands the gap between the supporters of the losing side … substantially across contexts. The polarization of parties explains most of this variance, suggesting that, in a polarized … democratic backsliding. ; Increasing political polarization implies that each election expands the gap between the supporters of …
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. ; Polarization can have economic effects if the hostility between political camps (i.e., affective polarization) shapes economic …
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An important dimension of product differentiation and segregation for specialty crops is the added handling and …
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and market segregation. We represent explicitly the costs of non-GMO segregation and identity preservation (IP) for both … production channels. We then illustrate our model by a simulation of potential adoption of GM rapeseed with non-GMO market … segregation in the European Union (EU). We analyze how the costs of IP are distributed among heterogenous producers, handlers and …
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This paper studies the causes and consequences of racial segregation using a new general equilibrium model that treats … carrying out counterfactual simulations that shed light on the causes and consequences of segregation. In terms of causes, and … result in significant reductions in racial segregation, as minority households would sort into newly formed minority …
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gender segregation across industries. These additional findings suggest that discriminatory hiring practices are likely to …
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