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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita - 2011
governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic …
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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India : Evidence from Micro-Data
Kar, Saibal - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate …
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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning : Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2013
female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female …
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
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Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics Among Employed Stayers
Bassi, Francesca - 2009
The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
Kar, Saibal - 2011
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120119
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...
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Informal Workers Across Europe : Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK...
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Premium? Evidence from Tajikistan
Arabsheibani, G. Reza - 2012
This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2005), we find a significant informal...
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