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Does the Jack of All Trades Hold the Winning Hand?:Comparing the Role of Specialized Versus GeneralSkills in the Returns to an Agricultural Degree
Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kimle, Kevin; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
This paper examines the roles of specialized versus general skills in explaining variation in thereturns to an agriculture degree across majors inside and outside the agricultural industry. Thefocus on returns by sector of employment is motivated by the finding that most agriculturalmajors are...
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Iowa Farmers’ Decisions to Enroll in the Average CropRevenue Election (Acre) Program
Edwards, William M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
the direct payments. Those who enrolled farmed more acres and depended moreon crop production for their gross income, and …
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Revenue Protection for Organic Producers: Too Muchor Too Little
Singerman, Ariel; Hart, Chad E.; Lence, Sergio H. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
A framework is developed to examine the 2011 pilot program established by the RiskManagement Agency (RMA) to insure organic crops. Given that for insurance purposes RMAlinks organic crop prices to their conventional counterparts by a fixed percentage, we calibrateour model to reflect the organic...
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A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Fertility
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, anda positive relationship … between income and longevity. This is puzzling for standard dynamicmodels. For instance, altruistic models that use the most … posi-tive longevity-income relationship for rich individuals, but also predict a positive fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360674
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Rural immigrant population growth, 1950-2000: wavesor ripples?
Dust, Andrew; Orazem, Peter F.; Wohlgemuth, Darin - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
, more recent waves of rural immigrants are influencedmore by the number of jobs than by income levels in deciding where to …
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Understanding Post-War Changes in U.S. HouseholdProduction: A Full-Income Demand-System Perspective
Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
the forty nine year period 1948-1996. The econometric estimate of thedemand system yields plausible macro price and income …
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition: TheoryAppendix
Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar; Kuku, Yemisi - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
Across nine transition economies, it is the young, educated, English-speaking workers with the best access to local telecommunications infrastructures that work with computers. These workers earn about 25% more than do workers of comparable observable skills who do not use computers. Controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360844
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Expected Wages and Other LaborMarket Factors Affecting the LaborForce Decisions of Nurses in the Stateof Iowa
Doorenbos, Todd; Imerman, Mark; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005
The Iowa Department of Public Health has undertaken several independent projects to evaluate various aspects of the labor environment affecting Iowa healthcare over the recent past. This research expands upon the results of these efforts to estimate the effects of a number of wage and nonwage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360879
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Kuku, Yemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
Across nine transition economies, it is the young, educated, English-speaking workers with thebest access to local telecommunications infrastructures that work with computers. Theseworkers earn about 25% more than do workers of comparable observable skills who do not usecomputers. Controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360910
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Off-farm labor supply responses to permanentand transitory farm income
Kwon, Chul-Woo; Orazem, Peter F.; Otto, Daniel M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
transitory components of farm income. Off-farm labor supply of both spouses declines in response to increases in permanent farm … income. Farm wives also reduce off-farm labor supply in response to positive transitory farm income shocks. Consequently, one … mechanism farm households use to smooth their goods consumption when facing fluctuating farm income is to modify their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418932