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In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...
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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …
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scenarios based on the main value chains of the agriculture sector of Med 11: animal products, fruits and vegetables, sugar and …
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financial aspects. Using an agricultural sector model for Austria, we show that the reform will further decrease agricultural …
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Transformationsprozess in der Landwirtschaft zu gewinnen. Die Untersuchungen schlossen die Befragung der Betriebsleiter nach dem Alter, der … Dauer der Tätigkeit in der Landwirtschaft, dem Ausbildungsniveau sowie der Familiengröße ein. Es konnten positive … families in Georgia after ten years agricultural transition. Questions on age, length of working time in agriculture …
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Based on a dataset of a qualitative longitudinal study of two serial in-depth interviews of 74 Austria farming families … change in agriculture. The results are discussed in light of the social science debate on farm development. Over the study …
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional...
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This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals …
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This paper discusses conceptual frameworks for measuring the effects of innovation policy and begins with applying conventional descriptive methods to explore how firms rate and rank the merits of public intervention. Based on survey data from some 1200 Austrian firms we then challenge the...
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Die Beziehungen zwischen Arbeit und Gesundheit sind vielfältig, komplex und dynamisch. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie, die im Auftrag der Abteilung Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich vom sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungs- und Beratungsinstitut Analyse, Beratung...
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