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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2020
; and the distinction between self-employment by necessity and self-employment as a calling. The article devotes special …
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Pension Information and Women's Awareness
Angelici, Marta - 2020
We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women were interviewed to assess their knowledge about...
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Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy : A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One
Medina, Leandro - 2019
Using the multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) approach, this paper generates a novel global database by estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP...
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Measuring the Immeasurable : The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 “Old” European Union Member States’ agricultural sectors for...
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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Mimic Model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joel - 2020
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Falco, Salvatore; B. Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework
de la Torre, Augusto; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to … factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the … banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs due to the significant competition in the corporate …
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The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
Brell, Courtney - 2020
differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting …
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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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