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Human Resource Management: A Review With Applications To Agriculture, Wayne H. Howard, Kenneth A. Mcewan
Human Resource Management: A Review With Applications To Agriculture, Wayne H. Howard, Kenneth A. Mcewan
Agribusiness
For years the major management concern of farm managers was farm production. In the 1970s and 1980s, the importance of finance and marketing emerged as two additional critical success factors in production agriculture. A fourth management area of growing importance to successful farming is managing labor (Thomas and Erven 1989). Total employment in farming has been steadily decreasing to less than 4% of Canada's labor force in 1984 from close to 20% in 1950 (Agriculture Canada 1984). However, the labor remaining in agriculture has been changing structure, with a greater proportion of hired labor. Hired labor accounted for 30% of …
The Determinants Of Off-Budget Activity Of State And Local Governments, Michael L. Marlow, David Joulfaian
The Determinants Of Off-Budget Activity Of State And Local Governments, Michael L. Marlow, David Joulfaian
Economics
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Water Seepage From Unlined Ditches And Reservoirs, Nigel W.T. Quinn, Richard B. Smith, Charles M. Burt, Tracy S. Slavin, Stuart W. Styles, Amir Mansoubi
Water Seepage From Unlined Ditches And Reservoirs, Nigel W.T. Quinn, Richard B. Smith, Charles M. Burt, Tracy S. Slavin, Stuart W. Styles, Amir Mansoubi
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
Seepage losses in the San Joaquin Valley's Westlands Water Districts were estimated at 27,000 acre-feet a year, or about 2% of the district's water supply. Ditch configuration and construction techniques appear to influence seepage rates.
The Empirical Reliability Of Monetary Aggregates As Indicators, Michael R. Darby, Angelo R. Mascaro, Michael L. Marlow
The Empirical Reliability Of Monetary Aggregates As Indicators, Michael R. Darby, Angelo R. Mascaro, Michael L. Marlow
Economics
It is widely believed that monetary aggregates have failed to predict economic performance over 1983-87. This paper observes that the traditional definition of money (M1 lessother checkable deposits, or M1A) shows no evidence of structural change, and yields lower prediction errors for both real GNP and inflation over 1983-87Q2 than the errors obtained using M1 or M2. If there is a mystery, it is not why MIA has done so well, but why economists abandoned it for M1 or what was once called M1B (currency, demand deposits, and other checkable deposits).
Technical Change And Applications Of Dynamic Duality To Agriculture: Reply, Wayne H. Howard, Richard C. Shumway
Technical Change And Applications Of Dynamic Duality To Agriculture: Reply, Wayne H. Howard, Richard C. Shumway
Agribusiness
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What Our Students Should Know: Perspectives From Business And Academia, Wayne H. Howard
What Our Students Should Know: Perspectives From Business And Academia, Wayne H. Howard
Agribusiness
Perspectives from business and academia on the relative importance of various skills and attributes were compared. The perspective from academia came from the University of Guelph learning objectives and the AEB simple and complex skills required for undergraduate majors. A survey of Canadian agribusiness firms, including governmental agencies, provided the business perspective. Different types and sizes of businesses were consistent in ranking the relative importance of the various skills and attributes. The rankings by business were also consistent with the hierachial learning objectives from the University of Guelph and the disciplinary skills from the AEB. The hypothesis that business and …
Projected Consequences Of Climate Change And Human Impact On Asia, Anna Zepplin
Projected Consequences Of Climate Change And Human Impact On Asia, Anna Zepplin
Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences
A look into human influence on climate change in Asia and how it will effect certain aspects of their economy.
A Model Of Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Eric O'N. Fisher
A Model Of Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Eric O'N. Fisher
Economics
Exchange rate pass-through is the phenomenon whereby changes in the value of foreign exchange are reflected in changes in import prices. This paper presents a model in which firms are price setters who anticipate exchange rate changes. In equilibrium, firms' strategies incorporate expectations about the exchange rate consistently and are best responses to the strategies of all others in the world market. It is shown that exchange rate changes give rise to import price changes, but the degree of exchange rate pass-through depends upon domestic and foreign market structures and the exchange rate regime. In general, exchange rate pass-through is …
Exchange Rate Pass-Through And The Relative Concentration Of German And Japanese Manufacturing Industries, Eric O'N. Fisher
Exchange Rate Pass-Through And The Relative Concentration Of German And Japanese Manufacturing Industries, Eric O'N. Fisher
Economics
This note examines the rank correlation of export price markups and industrial concentration in German and Japanese manufactures in 1984 and 1986. It gives the most current measures of Japanese manufacturing concentration available in English.