In absolute terms, boomers will be better off the urban institute’s dynamic simulation of income... But in relative terms, measured as the ratio of postretirement income to preretirement income or to workers ’ in-comes, boomers will be no better off or in some cases worse off than...
Measurement of grading error costs in the beef industry.” paper presented at the american agricultural economics association annual meetingIndustry observers1 assert that the quality of beef products has declined in relative terms to non-beef meat products, such as chicken or pork, over the last 30 years and that this decline has caused the steady erosion of beef demand since the late ...
Distributional effects of the cap on western german farm incomes and regional farm income disparity... Based on a comparison of Gini coefficients and a decomposition of overall inequality effects we conclude that liberalization of the agricultural sector leads to a more unequal distribution of family farm income in relative terms, whereas a liberalized market provides a more equal situation in absolute terms....
On the utility of land surface models for agricultural drought monitoring... A quasi-global evaluation of lagged VI/soil moisture cross-correlation suggests, when globally averaged across the entire annual cycle, soil moisture estimates obtained from complex LSMs provide little added skill (< 5% in relative terms) in anticipating variations in vegetation condition relative to a simplified water accounting procedure based solely on observed precipitation....
