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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in … the level of informality. Results suggest the importance of tailored data set selection when modelling IE with MIMIC. …
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Does informality hinder financial development convergence?
Sever, Can; Yucel, Emekcan - 2021
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Analyzing the determinants of the shadow economy with a "separate approach" : an application of the relationship between inequality and the shadow economy
Dell' Anno, Roberto - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 84 (2016), pp. 342-356
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Nature of the relationship between minimum wage and the shadow economy size : an empirical analysis for the case of Romania
Davidescu, Adriana Ana Maria; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
informality. The results also indicated that the Romanian shadow economy decreased until 2008 to a value of approximately 27.8% of …
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The sources of wage growth in a developing country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
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The effect of effectiveness : donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment
Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel - 2014
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338773
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Pro-social behavior, reciprocity or both?
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2002
Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410448
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The Shape of Warm Glow : Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017
Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943156
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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2015
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033843