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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia
Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2011
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic … inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars …. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The …
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Colonial Origins of the Informal Economy on the Gazelle Peninsula
Conroy, John D. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
This paper is concerned with the accommodation to the market economy of Tolai people, indigenous to the Gazelle Peninsula in Papua New Guinea and regarded as one of the most prosperous and enterprising groups in the country. 'The market' was introduced to Tolai by German (and later, Australian)...
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La performativité des sciences économiques
Muniesa, Fabian; Callon, Michel - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2008
Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081419
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor: Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
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Some theoretical problems of informal economy
Muca, Brunilda; Doraci, Galantina - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 8 (2014) 2, pp. 108-115
The concept of informality started to materialize back in the early 1970s. Though it was a foreign notion for many, it still continues to develop nowadays. The debate over informal economy still persists, many believe that informality is linked to poorer countries and economies, and that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105643
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Consumer Behaviour towards Women’s Cooperative Dairy (Swakrushi Milk): A Field Based Study in Karimnagar District, India
Rena, Ravinder; Vadde, Suresh - In: KASBIT Journal of Management & Social Science 3 (2010) December, pp. 25-44
The main aim of this study is to examine the consumers’ behaviour towards milk consumption. The specific objectives are to know the regular source of milk, satisfaction to quality of milk products and their price; payment system, per capita consumption of milk and to provide implications for...
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Starting Over: The Automated Payment Transaction Tax
Feige, Edgar L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This paper proposes a 21st century global fiscal architecture to replace the present system of personal and corporate income, sales, excise, capital gains, import and export duties, gift and estate taxes with a single comprehensive revenue neutral Automated Payment Transaction (APT) tax. In its...
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"What Do Poor Women Want? Public Employment or Cash Transfers? Lessons from Argentina"
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - Levy Economics Institute - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627289
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Nature Based Tourism, Seasonal Variation and its Impact on Employment and Income: Evidence from Meghalaya
DE, Utpal KUMAR; DEVI, Amrita - In: Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism I (2010) 2, pp. 117-117
The present paper attempts to examine the impact of nature based tourism in Meghalaya on the income and employment. Nature based tourism has important impact on the welfare of the local people of Meghalaya, especially women who have been engaged in various tourism related activities along with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144252
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Exclusive Goods and Formal-Sector Employment
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 242-72
We explore how the underemployment problem of less-developed economies is related to income inequality. Consumers have nonhomothetic preferences over differentiated products of formal-sector goods and thus inequality affects the composition of aggregate demand via the price-setting behavior of...
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