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An empirical study on the determinants of an investor's decision in unit trust investment
In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-23
Unit trust is a convenient way of investing and a sensible way to build one's wealth in the medium term and subsequently in the long-term. Investment specialists will manage the investments and spread the risks through careful diversification. The basic nature of the unit trust is that it...
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Value-added disaggregated social accounting matrix for the Indian economy of the year 2007-2008
Pal, Barun Deb; Bandarlage, Jayatilleke S. - In: Journal of Economic Structures 6 (2017) 14, pp. 1-20
India is pioneer in constructing the social account matrices for its economy for various years, but limited efforts … have been made to construct a SAM for India with detailed description about types labour input employed in various economic … constructed a 78-sector SAM for India which takes into account 48 types of labour input for economic activities and 80 types of …
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Revisiting the relationship between farm mechanization and labour requirement in India
Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Kubik, Zaneta - In: Indian Economic Review 56 (2021) 2, pp. 487-513
types of farm machines and labour requirements in India. The results suggest that a unit increase in the level of farm … effect on women's participation in farm work, while it decreases the probability of children participating in agriculture …
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Determinants of Small-Scale Farmers’ Intention to Use Smartphones for Generating Agricultural Knowledge in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural India
Landmann, Dirk; Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan; Otter, Verena - In: The European Journal of Development Research 33 (2020) 6, pp. 1435-1454
context. For this, survey data was collected from 664 randomly selected small-scale farmers in Bihar State, India in 2016. The …
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Experimentelle Daten zu Online-Transaktionen, Privatkundenkrediten und Hypothekenverträgen
Hauf, Stefan - In: WISTA – Wirtschaft und Statistik 72 (2020) 4, pp. 89-95
Das Statistische Bundesamt bietet seit Anfang des Jahres 2020 Ergebnisse und Werkstattberichte von experimentellen Studien im Kontext neuer digitaler Daten und Methoden in der neuen Internet-Rubrik "EXDAT - Experimentelle Daten" an. Mit den experimentellen Daten eines Informationsdienstleisters...
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Weighting bias and inflation in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from Swiss transaction data
Seiler, Pascal - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 156 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11
Sharp changes in consumer expenditure may bias inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using public data from debit card transactions, I quantify these changes in consumer spending, update CPI basket weights and construct an alternative price index to measure the effect of the COVID-induced...
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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-39, pp. 1-66
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
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Klimaschutz durch Biokohle in der deutschen Landwirtschaft: Potentiale und Kosten
Teichmann, Isabel - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 1/2, pp. 3-13
in German agriculture. According to this study, approximately one percent of the greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 …
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Climate protection through biochar in German agriculture: Potentials and costs
Teichmann, Isabel - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 4, pp. 17-26
German agriculture. According to this study, approximately one percent of the greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 could …
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Partial minimum wage compliance
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 18, pp. 1-20
In many developing countries, a significant portion of the wage distribution is found below the legal minimum wage. In order to fully understand the nature of this non-compliance, we need to compare the counterfactual wage distribution without the minimum wage law to the current wage...
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