Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment This research note uses two German data sets – the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires – to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort into public sector employment, (2) the impact of ...

How important are the 'non-traditional' economic roles of agriculture in development? Randy Stringer Some good reasons explain why early approaches to identifying agriculture’s economic roles resulted in a one-way strategic path that involved the flow of resources towards the industrial sector and urban centres. In an effort to provide a more comprehensive view of the roles that agriculture pla...

in regard to both implementation of the second phase of targeted subsidises and the effect of inflation resulted from first phase of it on economic of country, inflation content estimation on economic of country especially agriculture sector is necessary. in this research effect of increasing price of energy carriers on inflation in various reproduction sectors such as agriculture was investiga...

Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full acknowledgement is given. Abstract China's manufacturing sector led by labour intensive manufactures has grown much faster than that of India both in terms of production and exports. It is often argued that India's manufacturing sector that is relatively capital intensive must now...

The agriculture sector is the mainstay of the Tanzanian economy as it contributes 26% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 30 percent of export earnings and provides the bulk of raw materials for local industries. The agriculture sector provides employment to about 75 percent of the total labor force. Access to agricultural information and knowledge is timely, completeness and quality manner is ver...

In this paper, we extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment. We calibrate the model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector wage and employment policy on the unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the private and public sectors, and on the distributions of wages, productivities and educa...

introduction: generally, subsidies are the amounts of government payments in order to provide all society members with minimum well-being. in several countries such as iran, the agriculture sector is supported by different methods to achieve goals such as increasing farmers' income, supporting domestic producers and eliminating dependence on imports, preserving employment and reducing poverty. ...

Good nutrition and health for all are recognized as socially desirable objectives around the globe. It is generally accepted that national and local governments have a duty to provide the goods and services necessary for maintaining good nutrition and health. Moreover, improved health and nutrition are critical inputs for achieving broad economic growth and poverty reduction. Malnutrition and i...

the main purpose of this research was to study different aspects of self-employment among the agricultural female students in university of zanjan. the statistical population of the study contained of senior female students in agriculture faculty of zanjan university in 2014-2015 academic year (n= 135).according to cochran's formula, 63 student were selected using a stratified random sampl...