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Product quality, informality, and child labour

Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - 2011

, since these policies have undesirable welfare effects among segments of wage-earning households, they may not garner the … necessary political support. -- child labour ; informality ; product quality ; welfare …

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285538

Wind of change? : experimental survey evidence on the COVID-19 shock and socio-political attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; … - 2020

social welfare spending financed by taxes. This is largely due to economic insecurity, but also because of health concerns. A …

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When distrust goes viral : causal effects of Covid-19 on European political attitudes

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; … - 2020

undermined trust in politicians, the media, the EU and social welfare spending financed by taxes. This is mainly due to economic …

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The inequality and mobility of exposure to European Soviet Communism

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025

those not exposed, using similar welfare mea-sures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare … indices for ordinal and categorical data. Our results suggest evidence of comparable welfare inequality trends in countries … of the welfare state in countries not exposed to SC and the inefficiency of the bureaucratic allocation of private goods …

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Is social security behind the collapse of personal saving?

Caliendo, Frank - 2009

This paper considers the quantitative role of growth in the size of the social security program in contributing to the collapse of personal saving in the U.S. over the last few decades. Using a calibrated, general equilibrium life-cycle model this paper shows that social security may not be to...

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The 2008 Chilean reform to first-pillar pensions

Valdés Prieto, Salvador - 2009

to per capita household income. -- Social security ; welfare programs ; political economy of reform …

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The role of informality in moderating the impact of adverse macroeconomic shocks

Marjit, Sugata; Bhattacharyya, Ranajoy; Yang, Lei - 2023

This paper provides a simple demonstration of an empirical observation pointed out by the existing literature that the presence of informality in the production sector of an economy moderates the impact of economic shocks affecting it. We show that in the presence of informality, adverse demand...

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The changing structure of immigration to the OECD : what welfare effects on member countries?

Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …

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Small countries and preferential trade agreements : how severe is the innocent Bystander problem?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2000

This paper examines the welfare implications of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) from the perspective of small …

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