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Shadow economies around the world: New results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Schneider, Friedrich; Medina, Leandro - 2017

This paper is a first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) method we apply for the first time (i) the light intensity approach instead of GDP avoiding the...

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International human trafficking: Measuring clandestinity by the tructural equation approach

Rudolph, Alexandra; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013

Worldwide human trafficking (HT) is the third most often registered international criminal activity, ranked only after drug and weapon trafficking. The aim of the paper is to measure the extent of HT inflows to destination countries. It proposes the application of the Multiple Indicators...

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An empirical analysis of gender bias in education spending in Paraguay

Masterson, Thomas - 2008

Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents that greater female bargaining power within households results in a variety of shifts in household production and consumption. An important source of intrahousehold bargaining...

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Import Prices, Income and Inequality

Bekkers, Eddy; Francois, Joseph; Manchin, Miriam - 2012

We compare three theoretical explanations for the positive empirical relationship between importer income per capita and traded goods prices. A first explanation is that consumers with higher incomes demand higher quality goods with higher prices. A second explanation is that wealthier people...

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Mode of Transport along the Quality Dimension

Jaimovich, Esteban; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021

Aeroplanes are a fast but expensive means of shipping goods, which allow producers to respond quickly to favourable demand realisations and to limit the risk of shipping unproÖtably large quantities during low demand periods while substantially raising the transportation cost relative to ocean...

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Switching Models with Self-Selection: Self-Employment in Hungary

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …

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Economic transition, dualism, and informality in India

Kesar, Surbhi - 2019

"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such transitions are usually accompanied by a transition in the economic …

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Wage growth and inequality change during rapid economic transition

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

East Germany, a unique socialist command economy prior to the 1990s, underwent rapid transition to a market …-oriented economic system. This transition has been of intense interest given the environment of Eastern Germany vis-a-vis Western … Germany, a setting different from most other transition economies. However, changes in the Eastern wage structure during …

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A note on poverty in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005

Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo using the Living Standards Measurement Survey.

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Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...

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