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In the last 20 years, Vietnam has been one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. But the coverage of social insurance is still low. Only around one in five workers is covered by the public social insurance scheme. Expanding the coverage of social insurance for informal sector workers and the...
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It is well known that the size of the informal (black or grey) economy causes serious fiscal problems for Hungary. This study makes an attempt to quantify the budgetary and macroeconomic effects of different ways of widening the formal sector (whitening”) with the help of a model. It turns out...
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This paper addresses the issue of household demand for services in Poland when informal sector is taken into …. Two-step Heckman selection model is used to account for the selection into buying household services. Lee's (1983 …) procedure is adopted to control for the selection into the particular choice of tax strategy when purchasing household services …
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In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China's household survey. We find that … China's household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …
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some economic models of household decision-making. Subjects make choices individually and jointly and are asked to make …
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This paper maps key indicators of household structure across all countries for all countries of the expanded European … Union except Malta. As well as presenting statistics which take the entire household as the unit of analysis, we also focus … on groups which are particularly interesting in terms of social policy, and for whom household composition may be …
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Die vorliegende Dokumentation enthält Beiträge zu einem Workshop, den die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung gemeinsam mit dem Münchner Institut für Sozialforschung (MISS) am 26. März 2002 in Düsseldorf durchführte. Unter dem Titel 'Mehr Beschäftigung durch bürgerschaftliches Engagement und...
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This study investigates the relationship between financial development and the size of the informal economy. We build a model in which an exogenous variation in the size of the informal sector creates two effects on financial development. Specifically, informal sector harms financial development...
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Civil conflict in Syria, started in March 2011, led to a massive wave of forced immigration from Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey, which later had serious economic/political repercussions on the MENA region and most of Europe. This paper exploits this natural experiment to...
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Human capital development, including both education and post-school training, has been a central part of the development strategies of most countries, because it contributes to economic growth, both through raising productivity and facilitating the use of new technologies. In addition, training...
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