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Showing 1 to 20 of 451 for “"and Welfare"”.
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Pensions reforms, redistribution and welfare
… remains which pensions system yields the highest welfare under differing economic conditions. We use a standard overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents to address the various questions. The role of the pensions system varies between consumption smoothing and redistribution, or a …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance, and Welfare
… analyzes the aggregate income shocks absorbing and welfare improving roles of remittances in emerging economies. I develop a model to derive testable implications for aggregate remittance behavior. Using a panel data set of 102 developing countries from 1975 to 2013 and the generalized method of …
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Child support enforcement and welfare dependency
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Insider trading: Regulation, securities markets and welfare
Although liquidity and informational efficiency, among others, are important characteristics of a securities market, they are not, or should not be, ends in themselves. From a normative point of view, the ultimate goal is to maximize the welfare of society. Therefore, the critical question about …
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Capital, growth and welfare--theories of allocation
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Engineering, 1956.
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Environmental health risks, inequality and welfare beyond GDP
… overlooked impact on economic well-being and inequality is the mortality and morbidity attributed to the environment, such as air, soil and water pollution, ecosystem degradation, unsafe water and sanitation, temperature balance and other environmental quality changes. These environmental …
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Post-Weaning, Early Gestation Sows: Housing and Welfare
… consumers are expressing concern for the welfare of breeding sows in our food systems and are influencing markets rapidly through both their buying and voting choices. As producers necessarily begin to shift towards decreased breeding sow housing confinement, there is a need for nuanced …
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The Price and Welfare Effects of Airline Alliances
These papers provide theoretical and empirical evidence for the price and welfare effects of airlines alliances. The first chapter develops a model for the price effects of international airline alliances and empirically tests the predictions. Two substantive claims from the theoretical models are …
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Union - Management Health and Welfare Programs Since 1945
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:04:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5805426.pdf: 9580025 bytes, checksum: 2deb7861b64bc4abcc4291590e252c29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Digital finance and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
… measuring the effect of financial inclusion on welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using the traditional financial inclusion index, which encompasses traditional access to financial services but does not necessarily represent the marginalised, as the majority do not make use of formal financial …
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Wildlife Trade in Morocco: Use, Conservation, Laws and Welfare
… the legal trade combined with surveys of legal and illegal trade can give an insight into the species that are being targeted, the numbers in which they are being removed from the wild, the reasons for which they are traded and can highlight conservation, legal and welfare issues relating to …
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Modelling broiler chicken health and welfare in a changing climate
… are relatively rare, with productivity gains and losses yet to be fully quantified. This thesis aimed to quantify and project the impacts of climate change on loss of market weight broiler (meat) chickens due to poor health and welfare at slaughter. Focussing on the mild temperate climate of …
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Health and Welfare Implications of Temperament Differences in Dairy Cattle
… in behaviour is referred to as personality and has significant associations with health and wellbeing. The studies reported in this thesis investigated whether temperament is also associated with health and welfare outcomes in dairy cattle. No universal framework for expressing temperament …
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Why so little trade : externalities asymmetry of information, and welfare
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare impacts in Ghana and Kenya
… subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare implications of fish farming households in Ghana and Kenya. It is divided into three separate chapters, each addressing a specific empirical issue related to aquaculture in the countries.</p> <p>The second chapter of this dissertation …
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Impact of cassava innovations on household productivity and welfare in Uganda
Agriculture remains the mainstay of Uganda’s economy, employing its majority population and contributing significantly to its GDP. Cassava is a national priority crop for Uganda and remains a globally competitive source of food, nutrition and income security as well as an industrial commodity due …
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