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We investigate whether rising income disparity contributes to the proliferation of shadow economic activities in Nigeria. The study uses data from 1991 to 2018 and adopts the Auto-regressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) cointegration approach to study the effects of income inequality on the shadow...
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319904
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...
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We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trendwas stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591489
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595900
This paper reviews the evidence on welfare time limits in the United States. It primarily refers to experimental and econometric evaluations. Time limits affect welfare recipients both before and after their limits are reached. Time limits reduce welfare receipt and increase employment before...
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We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We …) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and transfers to the household might induce a reduction in children … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
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We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We … show how hiring labor from outside the household and transfers to the household might induce a reduction in children … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. -- child labor ; emigration ; transfers ; Tanzania …
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We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We … show how hiring labor from outside the household and transfers to the household might induce a reduction in children … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. -- child labor ; emigration ; transfers ; Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238596