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Labor Supply, Informal Economy and Russian Transition

Bouev, Maxim - 2001

The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...

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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy: A Labour Market Approach

Bouev, Maxim - 2002

This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...

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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector

Bouev, Maxim - 2005

This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...

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Požiūriai į neapmokestinamas pajamas, 2004 m. balandis

Nausėdienė, Inga - 2004

Tyrimo tikslas: įvertinti atlyginimų "vokelyje" praktikos paplitimo mastus Lietuvoje. Respondentams buvo pateikti klausimai, ar jie gauna neapmokestinamų pajamų bei klausta, kokią dalį pajamų procentais sudaro tokios neapmokestinamos pajamos. Socialinės demografinės charakteristikos:...

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Risk Preferences and Demand for Insurance in Peru: A Field Experiment

Galarza, Francisco B.; Carter, Michael R. - 2010

This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru toexamine the relationship amongst …

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ACEITAÇÃO E SEGMENTAÇÃO DO MERCADO DE PRODUTOS DERIVADOS DA CARNE DE PERU

Pulici, Rodrigo; Alves, Flavio Rocha; Gameiro, Augusto … - 2008

- de certa forma - este desempenho. Como o frango de corte, grande parte da produção de carne de peru é exportada. Todavia … de peru, que se apresenta bastante baixo, apesar do crescimento nos últimos cinco anos. A presente pesquisa analisou a … estratégia de segmentação do mercado dos produtos à base de carne de peru, o comportamento de compra baseado nos preços desses …

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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China’s Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2005

Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...

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An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises

Ahuja, Gautam; Majumdar, Sumit K. - 1998

We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently explained using regression...

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The balance between equity and efficiency in Australian public policy

Argy, Fred - 1996

1. Australia has performed quite well over the last two decades in terms of real GDP per head; the GDP gains have not been fully reflected in other economic welfare measures (section 1). 2. Most economic reforms have important distributional effects, and these are often prolonged and enduring....

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