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The gender impact in earnings inequality : evidence from Sri Lanka

Arun, Thankom; Borooah, Vani K. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 71-80

This paper estimates an earnings function for Sri Lanka, followed by a decomposition analysis of male-female earnings suggest that the gender disparity in earnings largely represents "discrimination" against women. The findings showed that irrespective of their "inferior" labour market...

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Impact of QWL on employee satisfaction case of oil and gas industry in Qatar

Al Muftah, Hend; Lafi, Hanan - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 107-134

This paper examines the factors that influence QWL and investigate the relationship between QWL and satisfaction among employees working in the Oil and Gas companies in the State of Qatar. While much of the attention been directed to the concept of QWL in developed countries, it has received...

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Arbeitsmigration in Zentralasien: Kinder profitieren nicht von Geldüberweisungen

Kröger, Antje Elisabeth - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 6, pp. 11-17

In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...

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Dynamic speculative behaviors and mortgage bubbles in the real estate market of mainland China

Wang, Sheng - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 1, pp. 1-54

It is systemic to expound how that the speculative behaviors are driven by the number of a series housing policies promulgated by China's government for the real estate market. The market is resulted in full of speculative behaviors, and has been booming since the beginning of this decade, even...

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Infrastructure, knowledge and economic growth in China : 1953–2004

Ramesh, Sangaralingam - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 23-50

This paper evaluates the economic development of China using the New Economic Geography (NEG) as a framework of analysis. The NEG addresses the formation of agglomeration economies accruing to physical linkages in one location leading to the formation of a coreperiphery pattern between the...

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Finance-growth-crisis nexus in Asian emerging economies : evidence from VECM and ARDL assessment

Fukuda, Takashi; Dahalan, Jauhari - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 69-100

This paper examines the causal relationship between financial development, economic growth and financial crisis in the five Asian emerging economies (India, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand) during the period 1982 to 2007. All of these countries are known as emerging economies with...

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Una aproximación a la construcción de un indicador de pobreza multidimensional : cuáles son los focos de riesgo en España?

Poza Lara, Carlos; Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 43-72

The aim of this paper is to construct a multidimensional poverty indicator, to detect the main poverty risk focuses in … poverty ; indicator ; factor analysis …

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¿Qué factores explican la pobreza multidimensional en España? . una aproximación a través de los modelos de ecuaciones estructurales

Poza Lara, Carlos; Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 81-110

The aim of this study is to present the most important factors that explain multidimensional poverty in Spain …, highlighting the relationships between the explanatory elements themselves in the spirit of enhancing the effects of poverty policy … and the type of employment contract are the most important variables to explain multidimensional poverty …

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Distribution of poverty and inequality indices for various groups in Greece using the bootstrap technique

Aggelopoulou, Dimitra; Zografakis, Stavros; Sypsas, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 81-97

The present work estimates poverty and inequality indices in various groups that are known to have high contributions … to poverty and inequality, such as farmers, pensioners and families with 3 or more children. Using the bootstrap … technique, we estimate confidence intervals for these indices and examine if the decrease of poverty and inequality during the …

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Spatial distribution of poverty in Chile

Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Philip H.; Góngora, Diana … - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 79-110

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two …-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated … seeks to understand the relationship between poverty, socioeconomic status and urban or rural residence depends on survey …

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