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Innovation at the State Level: Initial Effects of Welfare Reform in Iowa

Keng, Shao-Hsun; Garasky, Steven B.; Jensen, Helen H. - 1999

In 1993, the State of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms to its welfare program creating the Family Investment program (FIP), a program similar to the Federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program created in 1996. This paper examines the experiences of individuals and...

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Social Approval, Values, and AFDC: A Reexamination of the Illegitimacy Debate

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2001

This paper models the fertility decision of individuals who differ in their wage rate and their intensity of preferences for rearing children, and whose utility of having a child out of wedlock depends on the level of “social approval” associated with doing so. This social approval in turn...

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How Immigrants and Students Respond to Public Policies: Evidence from Welfare Reform, the Minimum Wage and Stafford Loans.

Cadena, Brian C. - 2008

The first two essays of this dissertation use policy experiments to show that low-skilled newly arriving immigrants help keep the economy in geographic equilibrium by differentially selecting destinations that provide better labor market prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose...

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International petroleum statistics report, June 1995

2009

The report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

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International petroleum statistics report: April 1996

2010

This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436896

La Vita Imprenditoriale: Female and Male Entrepreneurs in Italy

Terjesen, Siri A.; Ratten, Vanessa - 2007

Female entrepreneurship is growing (OECD, 2000) with some estimates that this growth exceeds that of most economies around the world (Carter & Williams, 2005). In a forty-one country study, females comprise 36% of all entrepreneurs (Reynolds et al. 2004), with the percentage of female...

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Ownership structure and business evaluation practices in family SMEs : evidence from empirical research in Italy

Mussolino, Donata; Pugliese, Amedeo; Vigano, Riccardo - 2005

”. Evidence from many studies point out the importance of family business in a worldwide economic environment: in Italy 93% of the …

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Information technology capability within small-medium enterprises

Ravarini, Aurelio - 2010

organisations were involved in inter-organisational networks within industrial aggregations in Italy. Eleven SMEs were involved in a … multiple case study, and 77 SMEs (belonging to the textile and the mechanical industrial districts in Italy) were surveyed and …

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The EU demand for imports of virgin olive oil

Ben Kaabia, Monia; Gil, Jose Maria - 2007

This paper has analysed the import demand for virgin olive oil in the EU andmore precisely in the Italian market, as it concentrates more than 80% of EU imports,aiming to determine the relative position of Mediterranean EU and non-EU countriesexports and their degree of substitutability or...

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The challenge of the international organic certification: a new opportunity for agricultural trading?

Canavari, Maurizio; Cantore, Nicola - 2007

Italy by a cross country and panel analysis and second it provides an original specification for transaction costs. In … particular, we assume that the level of organic certification standards harmonisation between Italy and extra-European countries … that the absence of specific import harmonisation rules between Italy and other extra-European countries decreases the …

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