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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
support fair trade non-profits directly? -- Middlemen ; non-profits ; poverty ; market access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897511
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Inequality of earnings in Germany generally accepted but low incomes considered unfair
Adriaans, Jule; Liebig, Stefan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 37, pp. 347-352
Earnings differences are a recurring topic of public discussion in Germany. Data from the long-term Socio … perceived as fair while a substantial share of the respondents find the current earnings distribution in Germany unfair. This …-Economic Panel (SOEP) study as well as a separate survey of German employees (LINOS) show that earnings inequalities are generally …
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Accruals, managerial operating decisions, and firm growth : implications for tests of earnings management
Liu, Michelle - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 31 (2019) 1, pp. 153-193
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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health
Apouey, Bénédicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2010
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect...
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269504
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Rent-sharing and the cyclicality of wage differentials
Du Caju, Philip (contributor); Rycx, François (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778859
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Inter-industry wage differentials : how much does rent sharing matter?
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2009
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963789
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The Properties of Income Risk in Privately Held Businesses
DeBacker, Jason Matthew - 2013
Our paper represents the first attempt in the literature to estimate the properties of business income risk from privately held businesses in the US. Using a new, large, and confidential panel of US income tax returns for the period 1987-2009, we extensively document the empirical stylized facts...
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The Properties of Income Risk in Privately Held Businesses
DeBacker, Jason Matthew - 2013
to compare to labor income or earnings risks. We find that business income is much riskier than labor income, even … less persistent, and it is characterized by higher probabilities of extreme upward or downward mobility. Furthermore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089382
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Inter-industry Wage Differentials : How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?
Du Caju, Philip - 2009
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155793