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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. -- Economics ; happiness ; life …
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Writing matters
Feld, Jan; Lines, Corinna; Ross, Libby - 2023
economics. Each economist judged five papers in their original version and five different papers that had been language edited …
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Oaxaca-Blinder meets Kitagawa : what is the link?
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Sierminska, Eva - 2023
Recently, papers have started combining the naming of two popular decomposition methods: the Oaxaca-Blinder method and the Kitagawa method, a popular method in demographics and sociology. Although the two approaches have the same objective in terms of decomposing outcome differences in some...
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Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002 : evidence from quantile regression decomposition
Qu, Zhaopeng (contributor); Zhao, Zhong (contributor) - 2008
One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but most of them focus on income or earnings inequality. In this paper, we investigate the consumption disparity between urban and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our...
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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006
Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010
Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...
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Short-term migration and intergenerational persistence of industry in rural India
Nandi, Tushar Kanti; Kar, Saibal - 2015
One of the well-known barriers to development is persistence of disadvantage among communities. The lack of occupational and therefore upward social mobility continues to restrain households from achieving socially desirable outcomes. This paper studies the effect of short-term internal...
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Analysis of the determinants of income and income gap between urban and rural China
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - 2013
This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze four waves of the China Health and Nutrition...
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A first step up the energy ladder? : low cost solar kits and household's welfare in rural Rwanda
Grimm, Michael; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2014
all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost alternative to investment intensive grid …
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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
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