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Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage: Empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia

Tesfaye, Wondimagegn; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19

Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households' grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...

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Female labor force participation in developing countries

Verick, Sher - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not straightforward or consistent at the country level. There is considerably more variation across developing countries in labor force participation by women than by men. This variation is...

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Inequality of opportunities in the labor market: Evidence from life in transition surveys in Europe and Central Asia

Abras, Ana; Hoyos, Alejandro; Narayan, Ambar; Tiwari, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-22

In this paper we quantify inequality of opportunity in labor market outcomes in Europe and Central Asia using the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) methodology. Using data from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey we also compare HOI-based measures of inequality with expenditure-based measures and...

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Female labor force participation and development

Verick, Sher - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

The relationship between female labor force participation and economic development is far more complex than often portrayed in both the academic literature and policy debates. Due to various economic and social factors, such as the pattern of growth, education attainment, and social norms,...

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Policy Repercussions of "The New Economics of the Brain Drain"

Stark, Oded - In: Ekonomista (2010) 6, pp. 831-840

In this paper I delineate novel policy repercussions suggested by my research on “The New Economics of the Brain Drain”. In section 1, I provide a succinct account of the model that inspires the derivation of several new policy implications. In sections 2 through 5, I present the policy...

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Sind anhaltende Produktivitätsunterschiede zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland auch durch Unterschiede in der Datenbewirtschaftung zu erklären?

Büchel, Jan; Röhl, Klaus-Heiner - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 49 (2022) 4, pp. 23-43

Der wirtschaftliche Konvergenzprozess zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland verläuft seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre langsam, stoppte aber nicht. Der IW-Einheitsindex als zusammengesetzter Indikator aus sieben ökonomischen Kennzahlen erreichte im Jahr 2021 bereits 78 Prozent des westdeutschen...

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Mezzo economics analitycal approach as the propulsive part of managerial economics in tourism

Kozuharov, Saso - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 2 (2011) 2, pp. 213-219

Mezzo Economics covers the area between the Micro and Macro Economics and the organizational approach of the economics of the integral economic communities, which are made of microeconomic entities. Mezzo Economics represents an organizational loop between the Macro economic system and Micro...

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An innovative approach to food security policy in developing countries

Boratyńska, Katarzyna T.; Tofiq Huseynov, Raqif - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 2 (2017) 1, pp. 39-44

The article describes and analyzes the innovative concept of food security policy and presents theoretical microeconomic model of food security by Abdulai (2000) that explains individuals' demand for food ingredients. The literature review involves both direct and indirect policy measures that...

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Perceptions of farm size heterogeneity and demand for group index insurance

Vasilaky, Kathryn N.; Martínez Sáenz, Sofía; … - In: Games 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-21

Weather insurance is a financial instrument proposed to increase coverage of unprotected weather shocks in developing … insurance, raising the question as to what impacts farmer demand for group insurance choices. We test if farmers prefer to … purchase real-world insurance products as groups, and if groups of more similar individuals are more likely to demand group …

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Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand

Hübler, Olaf; Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmidt, … - In: World Development 145 (2021), pp. 1-43

This study tests the prediction that perceived corruption reduces ethical behavior. Integrating a standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey in rural Thailand, we find tentative support for this prediction: respondents who perceive corruption in state affairs are more likely to...

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