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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior : A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence

Halla, Martin - 2010

Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...

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Motivations for Remittances : Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … behaviour in Moldova. Drawing from these estimates, we conclude that altruism and investment (proxied by the level of economic … development at the regional level) are the two main motives behind remittance flows to Moldova …

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Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Borodak, Daniela - 2010

in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the …

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Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe : A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2009

This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova …

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy : Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2014

Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political … preferences in Moldova during the following decade and was eventually instrumental in bringing down the last ruling Communist …

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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia : Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011

Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full...

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Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike

Tonin, Mirco - 2011

This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings in the economy. Using a simple model of a competitive labour market, I show how this correlation...

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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality

Basu, Arnab K. - 2012

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal workforce. Our approach allows us to examine (i) the...

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Noncompliance and the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Hours and Welfare in Competitive Labor Markets

Danziger, Leif - 2009

This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If...

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Caste and Punishment : The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Hoff, Karla - 2009

Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...

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