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Modelling Organic Farming at Sector Level. An Application to the Reformed CAP in Austria
Schmid, Erwin; Sinabell, Franz - 2007
Organic farming practices have environmental benefits compared to conventional ones. Their adoption is the result of a complex interaction of intrinsic attitudes of farmers, their profit expectations and farm policy incentives. We use an agricultural sector model and develop an extended version...
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Indirect Welfare Effects of Price Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rouwendal, Jan - 2002
The effects of a policy measure often reach the consumer only after one or more intermediatesteps, for instance because the measure lowers the cost of an input for an industry producinga consumer good. This paper is concerned with the question how to measure such indirect effectscorrectly under...
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Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from successes and failures
Zoomers, Annelies - 2006
This article aims to contribute to the discussion about how to make development interventions more effective by analyzing the factors contributing to the success or failure of rural development projects. We made an aggregate level analysis of 46 projects in the field of agricultural research...
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Erzeuger und Verarbeiter müssen reagieren: Sieben Fragen an Vanessa von Schlippenbach
von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 38, pp. 7
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Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies
Cockx, Bart - 2013
In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331447
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Armoede en ongelijkheid bij ouderen: Een vergelijkende studie van de pensioenstelsels in België en Nederland
Keupers, Ingrid - 2009
tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database … in pension systems that are targeted and will be the lowest in universal systems. In Belgium (targeted minimum pension … than for elderly men and this gender difference is greater in the Netherlands than in Belgium. The paradox of …
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The regional dimension of collective wage bargaining: the case of Belgium
Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2008
. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …
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EWC confidential: Confidentiality in European works councils and how representatives deal with it. Case study and survey insights
Meylemans, Lise; De Spiegelaere, Stan - 2020
The idea behind the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs) is that these are bodies which should be informed and consulted on company decisions and actions. However, this flow of information is often disrupted by confidentiality constraints imposed by management. Three central research...
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Social protection of non-standard workers and the self-employed during the pandemic country chapters: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Sweden
Spasova, Slavina (contributor); Ghailani, Dalila (contributor) - 2021
. 2021), this edited volume comprises eight country case studies: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565849
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Work in the platform economy: Deliveroo riders in Belgium and the SMart arrangement
Drahokoupil, Jan; Piasna, Agnieszka - 2019
This paper presents a case study of the food delivery platform, Deliveroo, in Belgium in 2016-2018. The case offers …, and the role of local regulations. Interestingly, Deliveroo in Belgium employed workers through an intermediary, SMart …
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