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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2015

-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean … (SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …

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World Income Inequality Databases : An Assessment of Wiid and Swiid

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2014

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2015

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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The Cost Impact of Spam Filters : Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations

Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - 2021

More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...

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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction : A State-Wise Assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit K. - 2013

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...

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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service : Evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...

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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa : Perceptions Matter

Kostov, Philip - 2013

This study investigates the access to and usage of financial services in South Africa. Financial services are categorised in three types namely; general accounts and services, investment/savings and insurance/assurance. Taking into account the interactions between usage of different types of...

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Is Climbing Difficult? A Gendered Analysis on the Use of Financial Services in Ghana and South Africa

Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2013

This paper examines the gender gaps in the use of higher-order financial services such as investment and insurance, draws on the FinMark national-level data from Ghana and South Africa. The main observation is that females in South Africa are more likely to use general financial and investment...

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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...

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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Du Caju, Philip - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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