Off-farm employment has been an integral part of the emerging structure of production agriculture in the South. Government farm program payments, farm structure, and strong non-farm economy have important impact on labor allocation, farm and non-farm labor, decision of farm operators. The...

Meaning of knowledge and information as a factor of a rise of productivity and economic growth is discussed. The human capital level in rural areas and knowledge and information level are rather poor. The low level of general education and insufficient agricultural qualifications of those...

Many studies on the adoption of precision technologies have generally used logit models to explain the adoption behavior of individuals. This study investigates factors affecting the number of specific types of precision agriculture technologies adopted by cotton farmers. Particular attention is...

Estudos destacam a existência de um forte efeito da desigualdade de oportunidade educacional na reprodução do elevado nível de desigualdade de renda no Brasil. Neste artigo, é analisada a desigualdade de oportunidade educacional no meio rural e urbano, utilizando um modelo de aquisição de...

Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium

After the change of the political system, at the beginning of the 90’s, the territorial differences in Hungary deepened obviously. Approximately 1.5 millions jobs were terminated, the production in the former industrial centres declined, and the reorganization of the economical system started....

This paper describes the socioeconomic determinants of primary school dropout in Uganda with the aid of a logistic model analysis using the 2004 National Service Delivery Survey data. The Objectives were to establish the; household socioeconomic factors that influence dropout of pupils given free...

Em se tratando do modelo cooperativista, várias são as particularidades que o diferencia dos demais modelos empresarias não cooperativos, dentre elas, uma das principais e talvez relegada a segundo plano pela maioria das cooperativas, é a educação cooperativa, mesmo sendo caracterizada por...

Some problems of quality of human resources in Polish agriculture against the background of the EU were presented in this paper. The formal level of education was used as an indicator of the human factor quality. The perspective of changes in employment in the European agriculture were also...

Human resources are central to economic development and can be increased in value and productivity by investment in human beings e.g. in their education and health. But for a considerable period in the past economists stressed the importance of the accumulation of man-made physical capital for...