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Showing 1 to 20 of 527 for “"incomes"”.
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Gender effects on productive incomes and retirement incomes in Poland
… hypotheses tested are: 1) high productive incomes of currently employed individuals are a function of gender, other sociodemographic characteristics, and human capital factors: and 2) high retirement incomes of retired individuals are a function of gender, other sociodemographic …
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Economic aspects of government incomes policies
… this thesis is to attempt to survey and analyse incomes policies in Western countries which have instituted them and to try to explain the economic problems that confront economies which apply them with the prime object of checking inflation. It is, moreover, important to consider whether the …
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Essays on household incomes and public policies
… that influence the distribution of household net incomes in the EU countries. Part of the work analyses the impact of education changes on income inequality. The remaining part of the thesis analyses from different angles the role of tax-benefit policies for household incomes. The thesis consists …
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Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility of Agricultural Incomes in Scotland
… aspects of the distribution of agricultural incomes in Scotland. More specifically, the thesis will first investigate the impact of agricultural income support on inequality through the analysis of its redistributive effect. Decomposition of the redistributive effect allows to determine if …
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An Evaluation of Temporary Incomes Policies: An Optimal Control Theory Approach
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Malaysia household incomes classification prediction with k-means clustering and fuzzy inference system
… build a classification prediction of household incomes using fuzzy inference system (FIS) from the K-means clustering outputs. Thus, this study focuses on three main objectives which are (a) To apply K-means clustering on household incomes data, (b) To propose the prediction of household incomes …
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Terms of trade effects on PPP and incomes of primary-commodity exporting countries
This dissertation investigates the commodity currency argument of primary and secondary effects of the terms of trade on exchange rates and real income, respectively. The Johansen procedure of cointegration testing is applied to dynamic models for a set of four developed countries (New Zealand, …
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How Authors Make a Living: An Analysis of Free Lance Writers' Incomes, 1953-1957
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Finding ontological security in a world of precarity : a sociological study of the use of high cost credit by people on low incomes
People on very low incomes can often pay the highest rates of interest for credit. This research aims to explore the experiences of people on low incomes who use high-cost credit to understand why people with the fewest financial resources are prepared to pay so much for credit. This thesis is …
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Examining Contributors and Solutions to Prevent and Manage Food Waste in Households with Low Incomes and the Emergency Food System within the U.S.
In the United States (U.S.), up to 40% of the entire food supply is lost or wasted, which contributes to negative environmental, economic, and social outcomes, with the majority of food waste occurring in the retail and consumer sectors of the food supply chain. Concurrently, 10.5% of U.S. …
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The effects of financialization on investment in Europe
… between different forms of ‘unearned incomes’ and the dynamic of accumulation in non-financial businesses. We thus provide a description of the new ‘financial rent’ that emerged in financialized economies since the 1980s. Second, we review the literature about firms’ physical …
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Agricultural Cooperation and Horticultural Produce Marketing in Southwest Virginia
… A successful cooperative will increase farm incomes for the region's producers. The co-op will strive to obtain a higher price for the commodities produced than that price which can be obtained by growers acting independently. The increase in farm incomes should offset forecasted decreases in …
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Financial returns to human capital development: a case study of former students of agriculture at Virginia Tech
… developed to explain differences in individual incomes. Earned income models were estimated for the first job after leaving college, for the job held in 1985, and for the 1985 job in a lagged formulation. Analysis of covariance was used to estimate the empirical models. Model results for the …
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Impacts of the Seattle sweetened beverage tax on perceived healthfulness of sweetened beverages
… the proportion of Seattle respondents with lower incomes who agreed that sweetened beverage consumption raises one’s chances of diabetes (DD = 0.09 (95% CI 0.05, 0.13); p = 0.002), heart disease (DD = 0.07 (95% CI 0.02, 0.12); p = 0.017), and serious health problems (DD = 0.12 (95% CI 0.05, 0.19); …
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The Social Environment, Genetics, and Obesity: Evaluation of Diathesis-Stress and Differential Susceptibility Frameworks
… allele had higher rates of obesity across all incomes. Individuals with the low activity MAOA allele had higher rates of obesity at low incomes, but lower rates of obesity at higher incomes. These relationships are additionally nuanced by gender. The 5-HTT finding is only significant for …
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The tourism value chain and the prospect of pro-poor tourism in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
… to which tourism contributes to poor households’ incomes and to examine the prospect of pro-poor tourism in the resort of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. Value chain analysis is employed to identify linkages and leakages and to measure the contribution of tourists’ expenditure to poor households’ …
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Communication, home bias and social capital
… it lowers income inequality by decreasing seller incomes. The results have implications for the development and improvement of communication forums designed to ease and improve trading outcomes.^ The second study reports the results from a laboratory experiment on local trade in the presence of …
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