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Poverty and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2015
poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …
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Welfare and the depth of informality : evidence from five African countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Poggi, Cecilia; Gutierrez Rufrancos, … - 2021
This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of … informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social …, showing that a household head informality dummy obscures a non-linear relationship between the depth of household informality …
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Southeast Asia in the New Global Economy : Emerging Challenges from Africa and Latin America
Cammack, Paul - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to set the issue of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia in two contexts: the changing geography of economic growth and patterns of trade and investment across the world as a whole, and the accompanying quiet revolution that has taken place in the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067322
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Emerging Market Multinationals from Latin America : Analyzing the Internationalization Patterns and M&As Corporate Strategies of Mexico's Largest Companies
Jarque, Eduardo - 2017
Utilizing a unique data set based on companies' annual reports and local leading financial publications; data from privatization of state-controlled enterprises; world merger and acquisitions (M&As) and financial data from the Mexican (BMV) and New York (NYSE) stock exchanges, this paper studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960619
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Credit Rating Change and Capital Structure in Latin America
Rogers, Dany - 2016
This study analyzes the impact of imminent reclassification of credit rating on the decision-making regarding capital structure of non-financial corporations listed in Latin America. Despite the importance attributed by the market agents and the existence of empirical evidence of the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982763
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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?
Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016
Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....
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The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Jessen, Jonas - 2019
Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865842
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Scraping by : income and program participation after the loss of extended unemployment benefits
Rothstein, Jesse; Valletta, Robert G. - 2014
Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007-09 and its aftermath, large numbers of recipients exhausted their maximum available UI benefits prior to finding new jobs. Using SIPP panel data and an event-study regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257600
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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups
Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516872
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Scraping by : Income and Program Participation after the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits
Rothstein, Jesse - 2014
Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007-09 and its aftermath, large numbers of recipients exhausted their maximum available UI benefits prior to finding new jobs. Using SIPP panel data and an event-study regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057043