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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

The classic dual economy models of developing countries hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. They note that applying or enforcing minimum wage laws in only one sector of the economy will create wage differentials which will not be eroded with labor...

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International petroleum statistics report: April 1996

2010

This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

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Oil politics in the new Iraq

Moore, Clement Henry (contributor); Rai, Varun (contributor) - 2011

Iraq is one of the world’s major oil suppliers, and over ninety percent of its government revenues come from oil … Saddam Hussein. One major political battle preventing Iraq from developing its hydrocarbons industry is over the nature of … federalism among all of the sects battling for oil wealth in Iraq. This paper focuses primarily on the issue between Kurds and …

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Reviewing the Tragedy of the Commons: Environmental Management Systems and Informal Communication Networks

Espinosa, Angela; Knowles, Kathryn - 2008

"The Tragedy of the Commons can be likened to the now popular term 'Sustainable Development', as both of them refer to the need to appropriately and cooperatively manage shared resources, in order to maintain a balance between different generations of people inhabiting a particular niche within...

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Exploring Informality: An Empirical Analysis of the Informal Economy

Gardner, Sadie - 2008

The informal economy often comprises a significant portion of a country's GDP. As this income is not, by definition, taxed or regulated by the government, informal activity presents obvious problems, such as loss of tax revenue, which leads to a lower provision of public goods. However, there is...

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Labor Supply, Informal Economy and Russian Transition

Bouev, Maxim - 2001

The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...

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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy: A Labour Market Approach

Bouev, Maxim - 2002

This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...

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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector

Bouev, Maxim - 2005

This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...

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Požiūriai į neapmokestinamas pajamas, 2004 m. balandis

Nausėdienė, Inga - 2004

Tyrimo tikslas: įvertinti atlyginimų "vokelyje" praktikos paplitimo mastus Lietuvoje. Respondentams buvo pateikti klausimai, ar jie gauna neapmokestinamų pajamų bei klausta, kokią dalį pajamų procentais sudaro tokios neapmokestinamos pajamos. Socialinės demografinės charakteristikos:...

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The integration of micro-enterprises into local value chains

Tschinkel, Beatrice - 2011

The objective of the study is to identify how micro-enterprises can be integrated into local value chains by using the so-called "value chain approach". The "value chain approach" has become a relatively popular approach among donor agencies and NGOs engaged in Private Sector Development in...

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