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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil İbrahim; Özdemir, Abidin - 2018
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060216
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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2015
This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440127
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The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Bank Performance in Egypt
Badreldin, Ahmed Mohamed; Kalhöfer, Christian - 2021
Recent economic reforms in Egypt have significantly improved its macroeconomic indicators and financial sector. Banks … position. These findings do not support the current process of financial consolidation and banking reforms observed in Egypt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245488
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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy
Schneider, Friedrich; 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 level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294508
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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294540
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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: A panel analysis
Schneider, Friedrich; 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/10010294548
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Turkish Voter Response to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the … on the other hand, were responsible for the incompetence shown in providing relief, for involvement in corruption related … responsible for different types of corruption and mismanagement provided us with a unique data to differentiate between voter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500202
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Information transparency, fairness and labor market efficiency
Isgin, Ebru; Sopher, Barry - 2013
The paper studies the role of information transparency on fairness concerns, welfare and efficiency. When the firm's productivity and ultimately profits are revealed, wage offers induce relatively fair divisions of potential gains and workers respond with higher performance. Workers respond not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334250
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An experiment on partnership protocols for bilateral trade with incomplete information
Sopher, Barry; Sopher, Revan - 2012
We study experimentally partnership protocols of the sort proposed by Kalai and Kalai (2010), for bilateral trade games with incomplete information. We utilize the familiar game analyzed by Chatterjee and Samuelson (1983) and Myerson and Sattherwaite (1983), with a buyer and seller with value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334257
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Consistency and aggregation in individual choice under uncertainty
Birchby, Jeff; Gigliotti, Gary; Sopher, Barry - 2011
It is common in studies of individual choice behavior to report averages of the behavior under consideration. In the social sciences the mean is, indeed, often the quantity of interest, but at times focusing on the mean can be misleading. For example, it is well known in labor economics that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334258