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Labor income and risky investments: can part-time farmers compete?

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Lower returns from part-time farming can be compensated by diversification of income sources. Earlier, the family pooled its labor and shared its fruits, but today farm households receive part of their income from other nonfarm sources, like wage and salary jobs, business and professional services.

Author: Andersson, Hans, Ramamurtie, Sailesh, Ramaswami, Bharat
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 2003
Personnel administration, Part-Time Employment, Compensation and benefits, Part time employment

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How wages change: micro evidence from the international wage flexibility project

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The analysis of data from the international wage flexibility project, to determine the downward wage rigidity of workers who do not change jobs frequently, is presented.

Author: Holden, Steinar, Goette, Lorenz, Dickens, William T., Groshen, Erica L., Messina, Julian, Schweitzer, Mark E., Turunen, Jarkko, Ward, Melanie E.
Publisher: American Economic Association
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0895-3309
Year: 2007
Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Forecasts and trends, International aspects, Market trend/market analysis, Statistics, Statistics (Data)

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Should governments compete for foreign direct investment?

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The desperation of government to attract foreign direct investments into their monopoly markets is questioned.

Author: Katz, Barbara G., Owen, Joel
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 2006
Government expenditures, Management dynamics, Developing Countries, Management, Foreign investments, Economic policy, Company business management, Foreign direct investment

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Subjects list: United States, Analysis, Workers' compensation
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