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Public and private sector jobs, unreported income and consumption gap in India: Evidence from micro-data
Saha, Sarani; Roy, Poulomi; Kar, Saibal - In: The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 29 (2014) C, pp. 285-300
This paper documents the wage and consumption gap between private and public sector employees in India. We empirically … Survey of India. Our results show that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the income quantiles, the … earned by public sector workers in India. …
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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India: Evidence from Micro-Data
Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate …
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
Marjit, Sugata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies in a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated strategies. We argue that firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to increase TOTAL employment when faced...
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Changing Role of Women: A Study of Small Manufacturing Enterprises in India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
feminisation of workforce. This paper focuses on this changing position of women in the informal manufacturing sector in India over …
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Financial Misrepresentation : Antecedents and Performance Effects
Harris, Jared D. - 2009
This doctoral thesis examines the influence of relative performance and managerial incentives on corporate financial misrepresentation, and then tests the relationship between misrepresentation and subsequent operating performance, including the moderating effects of change in board composition...
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Operational risk escalation: An empirical analysis of UK call centres
Bryce, Cormac; Cheevers, Carly; Webb, Rob - In: International Review of Financial Analysis 30 (2013) C, pp. 298-307
The paper investigates operational risk reporting behaviour and policy dissemination in the selling of financial products by a major British insurance company's call centres. The analysis of the predispositions of call centre employees to escalate operational risks within their working...
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Benefits of a marketing cooperative in transition agriculture: Mórakert purchasing and service co-operative
Bakucs, Zoltán; Fertő, Imre; Szabó, Gábor G. - In: Society and Economy 34 (2012) September, pp. 453-468
The paper analyses the potential benefits of marketing cooperatives in Hungary, employing a transaction cost economics framework. We found that the purchased quantity, the existence of contracts, flexibility and trust are the most important factors farmers consider when selling their products...
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Ethnocentrism and Internal Compensation Structuring: An Experimental Examination of Point Factor Job Evaluation
Martin, Daniel; Wiley, Donna; Legree, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
“Comparable Worth” represents the concept that men, women, minorities, and whites should receive equal pay for work of equal value from their employer. Much research and many articles have been written in regards to overall pay inequities between men and women; however information regarding...
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Essays on India’s Political Economy    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from September 2010 to June 2014, is the issue of governance in India, and … how politics combines with societal and institutional structures to shape the quality of governance. The essays discuss … corruption, citizenship, effective delivery of public goods and services, taxation and the evolution of democracy at different …
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The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320 - c. 1420
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013
During the hundred-year period from about 1320 to about 1420, the Florentine woollen cloth industry underwent two closely connected crises. The first crisis was the consequence, direct and indirect, of the ravages of warfare and falling population, afflicting the entire Mediterranean basin and...
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