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Belgium is associated with high-quality chocolate products and Belgian companies play an important role in cocoa … processing. However, in historical perspective the global success and reputation of Belgian chocolate is a relatively recent … sector and discuss its determinants. Today, the very concept of "Belgian chocolate" faces challenges, as successful companies …
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Recent studies in the marketing literature developed a new method for eliciting willingness to pay (WTP) with an open-ended elicitation format: the Range-WTP method. In contrast to the traditional approach of eliciting WTP as a single value (Point-WTP), Range-WTP explicitly allows for preference...
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selected chocolatiers in Piedmont, a region in the northwest of Italy known for its ancient chocolate-making tradition. Methods …-oriented. Results: In general, the results show a strong link between the tradition of artisan chocolate producers and the desire to … to the field of chocolate web-communication and provides a picture of a local production reality; it is interesting in …
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). We here study the effect of urban sprawl on the price of farmland in Belgium. Using a set of very traditional urban …, the prospect of conversion from agriculture to residential land uses are high in Belgium, which is a densely inhabited …
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In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low …
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Unlike most of the trade unions in European countries, Belgian unions managed to preserve a high and stable union density, and strong institutional positions. However, their situation is not blissful and the condition of both the workforce and the unions has been worsening for three decades....
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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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Nous proposons une méthode pour évaluer la capacité des systèmes de taxation du revenu de diminuer la pauvreté, lorsque celle-ci est définie en cohérence avec une notion de niveau de vie issue de l'éthique de la responsabilité. Selon cette éthique, toutes les inégalités ne sont pas...
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Court delays are a frequent concern, yet what explains court case duration remains incompletely understood. We study the time to court case resolution by drawing on a detailed case-level dataset of civil suits filed at a major Belgian court. We utilize the competing risks regression framework to...
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Might the Belgian labor market be included in the gallery of “Belgian surrealism”? At first sight, Belgium with its 11 … track toward growth and employment, apparently without rising earnings inequality. But if one digs a little deeper, Belgium …
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