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This paper looks into institutional and other macro determinants of prevalence of informal dependent employment, as well as informal self-employment, in European countries, using European Social Survey data on work without legal contract in on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009. Consistently...
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benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a … incomes of migrants by over 200 percent and their household per capita consumption by 22 percent. Furthermore, low …
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This paper presents the first evidence on the efficacy of a major program designed to encourage the return migration of high-skilled individuals. The Malaysian Returning Expert Program targets high-skilled Malaysians abroad and provides them with tax incentives to return. At several eligibility...
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productivity and therefore wages as well as policies that improve the business climate could therefore encourage Romanian migrants …
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migration options, developing new savings and remittance products that allow migrants more control over how their money is used …, and some efforts to provide financial education to migrants and their families. Suggestive evidence together with theory … as enforcing strong rights for migrants like high minimum wages. Nevertheless, the paper finds the evidence base to be …
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The recent surge in the number of forcibly displaced who cross international borders in search of protection has prompted interest in evaluating policies that achieve the possible "end points" of the phenomenon. As envisaged by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), these are the...
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modest, decrease in the share of the population that believes income distribution is unfair. The fall in the perception of …
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This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality....
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can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents'scales. Little is known about this problem. This study uses … specially-designed surveys in three countries, Tajikistan, Guatemala, and Tanzania, to study scale heterogeneity. Respondents …
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with executive constraints and ethnic heterogeneity, and (iii) there is a robust interaction between these two variables …
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