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How Middle Class are the ‘Emerging Middle’ or ‘Scooter Class’ in Indonesia? A Household Asset Approach to Social Stratification
Schlogl, Lukas; Sumner, Andy - Center for Economics and Development Studies, Fakultas … - 2014
The emergence of a ‘new middle’ or a group of people that are neither poor nor in all likelihood completely secure from poverty in many middle-income countries (MICs) raises a series of questions: Is this group really a new ‘middle class’? How is this group new or different from the...
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Beyond competing theories of the hidden economy: Some lessons from Moscow
Williams, Colin C.; Round, John - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) May, pp. 171-185
Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate critically the validity of rival theorisations of the hidden economy that variously read this sphere as a leftover from a previous era, a by-product of a new emergent form of capitalism, a complement to formal employment or an alternative to the formal...
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Owning, letting and demanding second homes
Bloze, Gintautas; Skak, Morten - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2014
An increasing number of households consume housing beyond the primary home as owners of a second home. Economic studies … and second housing demand are estimated. We find a conventional monotonic increase in demand elasticities for primary … housing demand for non-owners of second homes; however, owners of second homes have the highest income elasticity in the …
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Fostering community engagement and tackling undeclared work: The case for an evidence-based 'joined-up' public policy approach
Williams, Colin - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1145-1155
Williams C. C. (2005) Fostering community engagement and tackling undeclared work: the case for an evidence-based 'joined-up' public policy approach, Regional Studies 39 , 1145-1155. Examining two realms of public policy treated as unrelated by academics and policy-makers, namely fostering...
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Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania
Mitrut, Andreea; Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
In many developing and transitional countries, inter-household transfers in general and gifts in particular are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian data that enables us, contrary to most previous studies, to isolate pure gifts from other kinds of private transfers and to study...
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Estimating the Middle Class in Pakistan
Durr-e-Nayab - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 1, pp. 1-28
possible factors associated with the concept, including income, occupation, education, housing and lifestyle. Using the …
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Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations
Gornig, Martin; Goebel, Jan - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...
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Linguistic Diversity and Preferences: Econometric Evidence from European Cities
Onofri, Laura; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Cenoz, Jasone; … - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 56 (2013) 1, pp. 39-60
This multidisciplinary study adopts an econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street in two selected minority language cities. We use a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the...
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Environmental fiscal reform and willingness to pay for the environment: an empirical analysis on European micro data
Ercolano, Salvatore; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Romano, Oriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper empirically investigates the determinants of willingness to pay (WTP) for the environment, employing micro data from the European Value Survey (EVS) over 2008-2010 in 27 European countries. Using ordered logit, logit and partially constrained generalized ordered logit models, we...
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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”
Branea, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
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