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important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional …
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informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …
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is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In … the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its incidence and to a lesser degree its determinants depend on the …
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’s determinants and charts how they have changed over time, leading to a typically reduced wage effect in recent years relative to …
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This paper provides a long term analysis of the determinants of the shadow economy. Using data for the United States … relationship between the shadow economy and its determinants exhibit some remarkable differences. …
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We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment, potentially an unintended consequence of the 2008...
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …
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international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about …
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This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship … is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. We overcome this by looking at wealth … theoretical framework which outlines how an individual's labour market behaviour may be expected to react to a wealth shock under …
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, we combine historical data on province-level famine exposure with contemporary data on individual wealth. To better … effect on the contemporary wealth of individuals born during this period. Together, the evidence suggests that the famine had … an adverse effect on wealth, and it is even present among the wealthiest cohort of individuals in present-day China. …
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