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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality : A Panel Analysis
Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777822
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the size and development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777897
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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960254
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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Lin, Carl - 2013
mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086220
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One Country, Two Systems : Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China
Giles, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Wang, Gewei; Wang, Stephen Yafeng - 2021
This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's urban residents retire earlier than workers in many OECD countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212253
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The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy : Evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022
those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission … the campaign came into effect in different provincial administrative divisions of mainland China, between individuals with …
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2016
Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000066
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20 Years of German Unification : Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155542
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839058
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Does Democracy Foster Trust?
Rainer, Helmut - 2006
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779963