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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
de Haan, Monique - 2008
nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study …
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328998
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Das Wisconsin-Works-Modell: Vorbild für eine Reform der deutschen Sozialhilfe?
Peter, Waltraut - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 29 (2002) 2, pp. 55-62
In Wisconsin sorgte die mutige Sozialhilfereform von 1997 dafür, dass der Sozialhilfeetat und die Zahl der … OFFENSIV nähert sich dem Wisconsin-Modell an. Doch wesentliche Elemente für eine dauerhafte Beseitigung der Sozialhilfefalle …
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The impact of Act 10 on public sector compensation in Wisconsin
Biggs, Andrew G.; Richwine, Jason - 2012
After a protracted legal and political battle, on March 11, 2011, the Wisconsin state Legislature passed Act 10, the … powers of collective bargaining and dues collection. This study analyzes public sector salaries and benefits in Wisconsin … government employees receive salaries roughly equal to those paid to private sector Wisconsin employees with similar education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439135
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Prognose der Entwicklung des Agrartechnikmarktes: Eine Expertenbefragung nach der Delphi-Methode
Vorgrimler, Daniel; Wübben, Dirk - 2001
größere Bedeutung erlangen. Während für die stückmäßige Nachfrage nach Agrartechnik ein Rückgang prognostiziert wird, wird …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375014
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Estructura de empresa y adopción de tecnología: Conservación de suelos
Gallacher, Marcos - 2004
Continued growth of agricultural output requires maintenance of the productive capacity of land through time. This paper analizes the linkages between firm size, land tenure and adoption of a soil conservation practice (no-tillage technology). Representative microeconomic data of the principal...
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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture
Hoogeveen, J. G. M. - 1999
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Políticas públicas de inovação no setor agropecuário: Uma avaliação dos fundos setoriais
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2012
The aim of this paper is to analyze the sectoral funds directed to agribusiness (CTAgribusiness). Besides presenting the national system of agricultural innovation in Brazil, the study shows the dynamic of technological development related to agribusiness sectoral funds. A description of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330973
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Why agricultural technological transfers to developing countries should be deregulated
Gisselquist, David; Grether, Jean-Marie - 1998
This paper analyzes the institutional arrangements governing the international transfer of input-embodied new technologies in agriculture. While developed countries characteristically allow "multiple channel" private and public technological transfer, developing countries often force technology...
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