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This paper examines the productivity of hired and family labour and determinants of technical inefficiency of fish farms in Ghana. A modified Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function which accounts for zero usage of family and hired labour is employed on cross-sectional data of 150...
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labor supply of Florida lobster fishermen. I invariably find that fishermen work more when earnings are temporarily high …
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This is obviously a generalizing piece, not a research paper, but Horace is frequently taught at college level, so I offer it as an anticipation of the new Companion, and as an attempt to summarize some of the most recurring problems about Horace and the genre of Roman Lyric (if indeed there was...
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approach is to compare behavior in Brazilian fishermen societies that differ along one major dimension: the workplace … organization. In one society (located by the sea) fishermen are forced to work in groups whereas in the adjacent society (located … on a lake) fishing is inherently an individual activity. We report sharp evidence that the sea fishermen trust and …
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Unmooring for beginners.Lesson one: making space ;Lesson two: stories and scholarship ;Lesson three: a brief history of the pre-bust Louisiana shrimp fishery ;Syllabus --Blood.Bloodlines ;Blood magic and cruelty ;Ecology and the body --Water.Bodies of water ;Names of water, or the idea of order...
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fishermen to exhibit different risk and time preferences than workers in other occupations. Using a structural model approach … correlate the parameters of both risk and time preferences with other demographic variables. The key finding that fishermen are …
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