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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Agricultural labor"”.
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Agricultural Labor in the Midwest, 1815-1860
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114941.pdf: 27100634 bytes, checksum: 199b062eb2069c154fc8518c34596df1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Harvesting Innovation: Exploring the Potential of an AI-Enabled Platform to Revolutionize Agricultural Labor Markets
Labor shortages in agriculture are a global problem that cause revenue losses and resource waste. In the US, immigration is the main source of such laborers, but labor immigration has decreased by 75% in recent years and costs due to unharvested crops due to labor shortage in agriculture were …
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Examining Past, Present, and Future of Agricultural Labor: From the Bracero Program to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
… regimes, different modes of regulating labor and capital. However, examining these two moments in history reveals that while these tools shift over time, there is a long history of Mexican farm-worker exploitation in the United States. We can also see that the CIW is a continuation of …
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The Effects of Braceros on The Agricultural Labor Market in California 1950-1970: Public Law 78 and Its Aftermath
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Rural Labor Productivity on Small Farms in the State of Rio Grande Do Sul - Brazil
This study identifies agricultural production lines, access and use of rural credit, agricultural labor marginal productivity and effects of agricultural labor migration to urban areas in microregion 325 in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The study is related to the agricultural year of …
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… networks through postwar migration and agricultural labor. I argue that Latina/o/x migrants melded distinct claims to U.S. citizenship through interethnic and international conflicts over access to intermediary power, expressions of popular culture, and the politics of foodways. As this …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Poverty, Education and Child Labor: An Analysis of Child Labor in Nigeria
Two major ideas dominate past literature on child labor. First, past literature continues to support the well-developed relationship between poverty and rates of child labor. Second, past literature continues to associate school attendance as the primary opportunity cost of child labor and …
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United for Wellbeing: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Increase Social Cohesion and Student Wellbeing in an Ethnically Diverse Rural School District
… communities rely on migrant populations for agricultural labor. Migrant families bring with them children who must be educated and made to feel part of a larger school community. Increasingly rural communities and the school districts that comprise them struggle to ensure that all students …
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Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, a Barrio of Quito, Ecuador (Andes, Urbanism, Marginality, Ethnicity, Symbolism)
… for the control and appropriation of indigenous agricultural labor to being a marginal, ethnically diverse urban area of Quito; (3) the public responses of two segments of the population of Cotocollao: the indigenous Runa who are for the most part inactive in barrio politics but who express …
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Misallocation and Productivity: Micro Evidence from Bangladesh
… by 95%. Capital is more misallocated than labor in manufacturing. I develop a two-sector model of agriculture and non-agriculture, each with an endogenous distribution of production units. Sector-wise, the distribution of active production units depends on the productivity of the unit …
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Three essays on the labor allocation decisions of the modern farm family
… payments in the allocation of off-farm labor through three essays. Government payments have been a part of agriculture since 1933 and at no time has the government stated a policy objective of decreasing the agricultural labor force. Using time series data and new econometric techniques, …
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An analysis of sources of growth in French agriculture 1960-1984
Agricultural production in France has increased considerably since the late fifties, turning France into a net exporter in world markets. This has generated a heated policy debate between France and the United States, centering around different views of the sources of growth in French agricultural …
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La construction des inégalités au Canada (17e – 19e siècles) : reproduction familiale, mobilité sociale et parcours élitaires au sein de la famille Drapeau
… generation, a lifestyle rooted in rurality and agricultural labor. While a few individuals reached the upper echelons of the social hierarchy, most reproduced a position within the Canadian peasantry. It is this fundamental divergence that constitutes one of the central concerns of this thesis : …
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Essays on Structural Transformation, Productivity, and Development
… intensity in the personal service sector, and labor market frictions are the most important channels. By revealing the growth pattern of the service sector in the early stages of development, the paper thereby contributes to the growing literature on the rising importance of the service …
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Essays on Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions
… micro-level.Chapter 1, Financial Frictions and Agricultural Productivity Differences, explores the role of financial frictions in accounting for agricultural employment share and labor productivity differences across provinces in China. A two-sector general equilibrium model with a subsistence …
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The administration and operation of German prisoner of war camps in the United States during World War II
… urged that prisoners of war relieve the labor shortage through their employment in agricultural and forest work. Although the War Department feared that escaped prisoners would present a security problem, such fears proved groundless.A far more serious problem resulted from efforts of …
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Effets indirects et distributifs de la participation aux marchés agricoles dans les pays en développement
The analysis of the effects of agricultural marketing on household (participants) income and/or consumption suggests a consensus on a positive causal relationship. However, it would still be incomplete if it is restricted to the participants alone, because in an economic system, the participants …