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Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland

Irz, Xavier T. - 2009

Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge …

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Quality certification for locally produced complementary foods in Mali

Sanogo, Diakalia - 2001

supplement other elements of national child-nutrition and anti-poverty policies such as maternal education, and the provision of … primary health care. …

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Price and participation in Indiana school food services

Ham, Seonok - 1998

The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting NSLP participation and price and assess their impacts. The dependent variables for this study were participation and price. Average Daily Participation (ADP) was used as a participation rate, and the following specific participation...

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Determining the impact of food price and income changes on body weight

Schroeter, Christiane - 2005

previous economic and nutrition studies, and energy accounting is used. Data on own-price elasticities and cross … overtime wage information. Given the limited alternatives considered, both analyses show that a subsidy on food at home proves …

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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH

Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - 2008

The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...

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Firm Ownership and Internal Labor Practices in a Transition Economy: An Exploration of Worker Skill Acquisition in Vietnam

Friedman, Jed - 2004

One feature common to many post-socialist transition economies is a relatively compressed wage structure in the state … owned sector. We conjecture that this compressed wage structure creates weak incentives for work effort and worker skill … works in the state sector. We explore firm wage incentives and worker training, as well as other labor practices and …

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Structural breaks in labor productivity growth : the United States vs. the European Union

Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Moral Naranjo, Esther; Sáiz … - 2006

There is a stark contrast between the recent evolution of labor productivity (and TFP) in the US and EU countries. In the US it accelerated around the mid-1990s and there is evidence of reversion to a high-growth regime. In some EU countries, while employment-population ratios started to rise...

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The Spanish productivity puzzle in the Great Recession

Hospido Quintana, Laura; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2015

Desde mediados de los años noventa hasta 2007, la economía española presentó tasas de crecimiento de la productividad inferiores a las de otros países de Europa, como Alemania, Francia o el Reino Unido. Esa tendencia, sin embargo, cambió con la llegada de la crisis. La evolución de la...

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Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance

Marjit, Sugata - 2010

firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated strategies. We argue that firms which operate both …

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