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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance : Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd - 2013

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

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Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa : New Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women...

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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ouyang, Yusi - 2018

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...

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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

but positive in Africa. We suggest that amongst reasons why African women behave differently are that the conventional … non-employment. In Africa, there is a decline in paid employment which overwhelms the rise in self-employment and this is …

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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports : A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies

Ko, Chia Chiun - 2014

banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set by large profits in years when cyclones destroy a large proportion … of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … have hit and re-planted banana plants have become productive. Combining the elasticity estimates with information on …

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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics

Dillon, Andrew - 2012

Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. Questionnaire modules vary across countries and within countries over time along several dimensions,...

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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

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Time Use and Time Budgets : Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Merz, Joachim - 2009

"Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...

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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality : What is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2017

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...

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