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Identifying the poor and the needy among the beneficiaries of zakat

Ahmed, Bilqis Ololade; Johari, Fuadah; Abdul Wahab, Kalsom - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 4, pp. 446-458

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the hardcore poor, moderately poor and just poor among zakat recipients in southwest Nigeria. It seeks to explain the criteria and basis used in determining the most deprived among zakat recipients considering the multi-dimensional nature of...

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Economic clustering of countries in the Asia‐Pacific region

Mimis, Angelos; Georgiadis, Thomas - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 355-366

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of using non‐income indicators and the self‐organizing map (SOM) approach as an alternative analytical tool to map countries' welfare status. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from 27 countries of the East...

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Assessing the distributional impact of community forest income

Olushola Arowolo, Aisha; Agbonlahor, Mure; Okuneye, Peter; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 11, pp. 1101-1109

Purpose – Emerging evidence revealed a high rate of dependence of marginal people on forest resources in developing countries for both subsistence use and cash income. The purpose of this paper is to examine the rural livelihoods welfare dimensions of community forest income in south-western...

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Factors affecting the intensity of nonfarm participation among ethnic minorities in Northwest Mountains, Vietnam

Tran, Tuyen Quang; Vu, Huong Van; Doan, Tinh Thanh - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 4, pp. 417-430

Purpose – Little econometric evidence exists on the determinants of nonfarm participation among ethnic minorities in Vietnam. The purpose of this paper is to examine the intensity of nonfarm participation and its correlates among ethnic minority households in Northwest Mountains – the...

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Multivariate robust estimation of inequality indices

Lara Alvarez, Jorge - In: International Journal of Social Economics 42 (2015) 10, pp. 921-945

Purpose – The data employed to measure income inequality usually come from household surveys, which commonly suffer from atypical observations such as outliers and contamination points. This is of importance since a single atypical observation can make classical inequality indices totally...

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Was fehlt in der EVS?. Eine Verteilungsanalyse hoher Einkommen mit der verknüpften Einkommensteuerstatistik für Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte / What is Missing in the EVS?...

Merz, Joachim - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 1, pp. 58-90

Zusammenfassung Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der „Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird...

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Flucht und Migration: Herausforderung für Bildung, Ausbildung und Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Walwei, Ulrich - In: Arbeit 25 (2016) 3-4, pp. 169-194

. Die These des Überblicksartikels lautet: Wenn die Integration geflüchteter Menschen in den Arbeitsmarkt erfolgreicher …

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A General Refutation of the Law of One Price as Empirical Hypothesis / Eine allgemeine Widerlegung des „Gesetzes des einheitlichen Preises“ als einer empirischen Hypothese

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 221 (2001) 1, pp. 45-67

monetary theory of forward exchange, or in the theory of international trade, as in the analysis of dumping. As a general … proposition about arbitrage, the LOP underlies every core proposition in neoclassical trade theory, e.g. the factor price … paper argues that the LOP cannot hold in principle, if there are positive costs of inter-regional trade for final goods, and …

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Borders Matter! - Regional Integration in North America / Grenzen sind bedeutsam! - Regionale Integration Nordamerika

Blum, Ulrich - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 5, pp. 513-531

Summary We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structure where data allows to evaluate the spatial interaction in two dimensions: level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This...

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Beschäftigung von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen im Tourismus: Chancen und Herausforderungen

Rosenberg-Taufer, Barbara; Stalder, René; Eggli, Florian - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 12 (2020) 1, pp. 115-126

Zusammenfassung Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen sollen die Chance haben, am allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt teilzunehmen. Deshalb wurde in einem interdisziplinären Projekt die Tourismusbranche analysiert und das Potenzial für integrative Arbeitsplätze aufgezeigt. In 70 qualitativen Interviews...

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