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Informal sector and corruption: An empirical investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2011
governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic …
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Informal sector and corruption : an empirical investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2011
sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …
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Corruption and persistent informality : an empirical investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 27 (2013), pp. 357-373
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The child penalty: implications of parenthood on labour market outcomes for men and women in Germany
Feldhoff, Charlotte H. - 2021
Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis...
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New Mothers? Labour Force Participation in Italy : The Role of Job Characteristics
Bratti, Massimiliano; Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - 2004
In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after the birth of the first child. We focus on the effects of pre-marital job characteristics and find that...
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Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269524
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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936721
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Is there an informal employment wage premium? : evidence from Tajikistan
Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Staneva, Anita V. - 2012
This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2005), we find a significant informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569577
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey : evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529580
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey :evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407058