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<Para ID="Par1">Healthcare capital-to-labor ratios are examined for the 10 provincial single-payer health care plans … percentage point decrease in the upward trend of the capital-to-labor ratio might be associated with a one percentage point …
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This paper provides evidence that scores on simple, low-stakes tests are associated with future economic success because the scores also reflect test takers' personality traits associated with their level of intrinsic motivation. To establish this, I use the coding speed test that was...
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, Bradley Hardy, and Linda Loubert provide an overview of where black women stand in the U.S. labor market with respect to work … and earnings. While these pieces show that African American women have made significant inroads into the American labor …
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synthesis of the literature has occurred thus far, especially for social considerations such as gender, health, labor, and … alternative trade experienced by Southern agricultural producers and workers. The results highlight gender, health, and labor …
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-Douglas production function by incorporating exports, capital and labor as additional factors of production. We apply the ARDL bounds … long run relationship. The results also indicate that natural gas consumption, exports, capital and labor are contributing …
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The purpose of this paper is to contribute a new model of the Gold Standard, focusing on the interaction between resource scarcity and demographics. In a dynamic micro-founded model we find that: i) prices and equilibrium gold holdings increase with population (a scale effect), but decrease with...
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The article analyzes some recent episodes concerning slavery-like practices and human trafficking reports. The problem seems particularly crucial in the industrialized world where the flow of illegal migrants is directed. After a summary of the international covenants concerning slavery and its...
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decline. Hours of farm labor in 1978 also continued to decline, down 5 percent from 1977. …
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Labor productivity is measured for each of 4 selected years for each of four components of personal consumption … commercial employees, and food produced and consumed on farms. The labor productivity estimates include both direct and … supporting labor needs because, through input-output analysis, it was possible to identify supporting labor inputs regardless of …
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