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In this study, we theoretically and empirically investigate the determinants of Bt-maize adoption in German regions. Specifically, we ask how the regulatory framework, the farm structures as well as the socio-political environment of GM expansion in Germany have influenced regional adoption...
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Mediante dos nuevas encuestas online llevadas a cabo en mayo y noviembre de 2020, en este documento estudiamos las consecuencias de las primeras etapas de la pandemia de COVID-19 para los hogares españoles. Documentamos un efecto importante y negativo sobre los ingresos de los hogares. En mayo...
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The entry of women into the professional world has, without a doubt, changed the dynamics of the workplace over the past few decades. That observation still holds true today and becomes more prevalent with the changing face of the labor market in terms of diversity. However, in spite of that...
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This study investigated relationships of age, gender, and supervisor level with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, stress perception, and turnover intention. The demographics were hypothesized to moderate the stress-satisfaction and commitment-turnover relationships. Hypotheses were...
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In the increasingly competitive world of retail banking, organizations are focusing their attention on customer service as a means of increasing customer loyalty and retention. With this goal of increasing customer retention, the link between the attitudes of the service provider (employee...
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Did the demise of Arthur Andersen and the related fallout affect the satisfaction of entry-level accountants at Big Four firms? The answer appears to be "no." Despite the considerable negative press focused on the profession, entry-level accountants still assess positively the profession and...
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Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …
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informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes.The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In … Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products issomewhat more restrictive than in …
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Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...
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of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …
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