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The impact of minimum age of employment regulation on child labor and schooling

Edmonds, Eric V.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-28

Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If … enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low …-income countries, we observe that age can explain less than one percent of the variation in child participation in paid employment. In …

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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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The Portuguese non-observed economy

Afonso, Oscar; Gonçalves, Nuno - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 23-57

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the volume of the Non-Observed Economy (NOE) in Portugal, by estimating, based on MIMIC models (multiple indicators multiple causes), its path in the period 1977-2008. On the one hand, given the influence of the tax burden, the burden of...

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Impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth of Pakistan

Saqib, Najia; Masnoon, Maryam; Rafique, Nabeel - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 35-45

Given contrasting evidence in the literature pertaining to the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the host country’s economy, we take the case of Pakistan and test the said association for this nation. The data used for this study has spanned over the period of 1981 till 2010. Besides FDI,...

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Risk attitudes and informal employment in a developing economy

Bennett, John; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-17

aversion and ability determine worker allocation across formal and informal wage employment, and voluntary and involuntary self … employment. Greater risk of informal wage non-payment can raise or lower informal wage employment, depending on the source of … risk. Informal wage employment can be reduced by increasing detection efforts or by strengthening contract enforcement for …

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