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To estimate an equation explaining the determinants of Dowry

Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Afza, Sarwat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The focus of this study is to estimate an equation explaining the determinants of dowry. In this paper, we address a very common socio-economic problem for sub-continent, the problem of dowry. From a social planner's perspective, who wants to reduce overall dowry transfers, we consider the...

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Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Zambia: Results from the 2007/2008 Urban Consumption Survey

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

• The Zambia Urban Consumption Survey, a survey of 1,865 urban households in Lusaka, Kitwe, Mansa, and Kasama, was conducted in August 2007 and February 2008 by the Central Statistical Office in collaboration with the Zambia Food Security Research Project. • Survey results indicate that in...

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Returns to migration, education, and externalities in the European Union

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2009

these two groups are affected by household and/or geographical (regional and interregional) externalities. The results point … returns to education between migrants and nonmigrants. Household, regional, and supra-regional externalities influence the … the introduction of a large number of individual, household, and regional controls. …

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Les mécanismes à l’origine de la corruption : une analyse sur micro-données africaines

Lavallée, Emmanuelle; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; … - DIAL - 2008

(english) Who are the most prone to pay bribes? Who are angled for bribes? Who pay? This article explores these issues in sub-Saharan Africa, an area of the world where corruption is widespread. This paper empirical basis is a rich collection of comparable data provided by the Afrobarometer...

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Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales

Lind, Jo Thori - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2001

A common approach to defining equivalence scales is to consider a household modelled as if it maximizes a single … utility function. This may be founded on an assumption of the household maximizing a welfare function of individual utilities …. For a positive analysis of the household, this may be appropriate, but it is argued that basing inter-household …

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Rural to Urban Migration as a Household Decision: Experimental Evidences from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Huy, Huynh Truong - Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen) - 2009

This paper reports the results of a survey from 148 households in the Mekong Delta regarding the household's decision …. According to the descriptive measure, it is found that the decision of migration for a typical household is significantly … model displays the household's migration decision is strongly positively associated with household size, housing status …

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Projets et attentes des Canadiens non retraites de 45 a 59 ans en matiere de retraite

Schellenberg, Grant - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Dans cette etude, on examine, a l'aide des donnees tirees de l'Enquete sociale generale de 2002, les questions liees a la retraite des travailleurs canadiens ages : le revenu, la protection en matiere de pensions, le statut relatif a la propriete immobiliere, le statut d'immigrant, l'etat...

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L'inegalite du revenu et le faible revenu au Canada : une perspective internationale

Picot, Garnett; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

Dans le present document, nous proposons un apercu des tendances de l'inegalite du revenu et du faible revenu au Canada dans une perspective internationale. Nous tentons notamment de repondre aux questions suivantes :- Apres quelques decennies de stabilite, l'inegalite du revenu familial...

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Gains des couples tres scolarises et peu scolarises, 1980-2000

Johnson, Anick; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Dans cette etude, on examine la performance des couples peu scolarises ou tres scolarises sur le marche du travail a l'aide des donnees du recensement pour la periode de 1980 a 2000.

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Distribution, inegalite et concentration des revenus chez les immigrants ages au Canada, 1990

Basavarajappa, K.G. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

Bien qu'il existe d'abondantes etudes exposant les differences de revenu entre les immigrants et les autochtones ou entre les groupes d'immigrants eux meme, ces etudes ne tiennent pas compte de la distribution ni de la concentration des revenus. Comme ces deux aspects sont importants pour...

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