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This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
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This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
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This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...
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This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
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use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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%. At the household level, street paving increased the use of collateral-based credit and average loan size. Additionally … result of pavement. We provide compelling evidence that the mechanism explaining the durable goods increase is the credit … channel: the raise in durable goods as well as in credit use was only present among households with access to financial …
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' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to … investigate the relationship between credit availability and rural labor supply. We find that providing households with access to … credit during the growing season substantially alters the allocation of household labor, with households in villages randomly …
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Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural … credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India …
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