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Poland's agriculture: serious competitor or Europe's poorhouse? Survey results on farm performance in selected Polish voivodships and a comparison with German farms

Petrick, Martin - 2001

farming over leaving the sector. Nevertheless, income from agriculture is to a substantial extent complemented by off … zwischen Beschäftigten in der Landwirtschaft ist wesentlich höher als der zwischen durchschnittlichen Arbeitnehmern in beiden … legt nahe, dass die geringere Rentabilität der Betriebe in Polen in erster Linie auf Strukturdefizite als Konsequenz eines …

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Farm investment, credit rationing, and public credit policy in Poland: a microeconometric analysis

Petrick, Martin - 2002

Basis von Querschnittsdaten landwirtschaftlicher Haushalte aus Polen geschätzt wird. Im Gegensatz zu herkömmlichen …

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New (im)possibilities for agriculture and domestic services in Poland and Italy? Navigating legal solutions and social organisations' support for Ukrainian women displaced by the f...

Fedyuk, Olena; Kyliushyk, Ivanna; Lashchuk, Iuliia - 2023

the opportunities available in the agriculture and domestic services in Poland and Italy, characterised by such structural …The aim of this report is to analyse the support provided to Ukrainian women in Poland and Italy displaced as a result … agriculture and domestic services sectors. Both countries have been facing labour shortages in these sectors for some time, with …

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Climate change impacts on global agriculture

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Betts, Richard; … - 2010

global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of the GTAP-W model, which distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated … agriculture and implements water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated agriculture. The results suggest that a partial …

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011

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Environmental justice in agricultural systems: An evaluation of success factors and barriers by the example of the Philippine farmer network MASIPAG

Glotzbach, Stefanie - 2012

A twofold challenge arises from the normative aim of environmental justice to the management of agricultural systems: (1) the improvement of food security and livelihood of the rural poor today; (2) the sustenance and enhancement of the long-term productivity and resilience of agricultural...

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Biogeographical conditions, the transition to agriculture and long-run growth

Bleaney, Michael; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2008

We use new data on the timing of the transition to agriculture, developed by Putterman and Trainor (2006), to test the …). The factors conducive to high per capita incomes today are good institutions, an early transition to agriculture, access …

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Immigrant workers and farm performance: Evidence from matched employer-employee data

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup … - 2013

Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed...

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Forecasting profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Chris - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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