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Gender and Attitude Toward the Ethics of Tax Evasion : A Comparison of European and Asian Views
Wei, Wei; McGee, Robert W. - 2016
This study begins with an introduction to the issue of ethics and tax evasion and a review of dozens of studies that have been conducted on ethics from a gender perspective, then proceeds to present the results of a study of 23 Asian and 11 European countries on the ethics of tax evasion. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035172
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Re-Reading Undeclared Work : A Gendered Analysis
Williams, Colin - 2013
The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether undeclared work is the same when conducted by men and women. Conventionally, the view is that such work is always profit-motivated market-like work and that women's undeclared work mirrors their subjugated position in the formal labour market in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079389
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Reconceptualising Men's and Women's Undeclared Work : Some Results from a European Union Survey
Williams, Colin - 2013
Recognising that the current conceptualisations of men's and women's undeclared work derive almost entirely from a limited range of small-scale studies of specific localities, sectors and occupations, this paper begins to resolve this dearth of evidence by reporting the findings of an extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079424
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Informal-formal worker wage gap in Turkey : evidence from a semi-parametric approach
Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - 2011 - This version: February 25, 2011, (preliminary and incomplete)
Using individual level data from Turkstat Household Labor Force Survey for 2005-2009 period and a variety of parametric and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a wage gap between formal and informal workers and whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548188
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Informal self-employment in Kazakhstan
Mussurov, Altay; Arabsheibani, G. Reza - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-19
We use data from the Kazakhstan Labour Force Survey (KLFS) for the period 2006-2011 to examine factors that determine informality amongst self-employed men and women. In addition, the paper examines the response of informality propensities to the recent global crisis. The decomposition suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603722
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Informal self-employment in Kazakhstan
Mussurov, Altay; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-19
We use data from the Kazakhstan Labour Force Survey (KLFS) for the period 2006-2011 to examine factors that determine informality amongst self-employed men and women. In addition, the paper examines the response of informality propensities to the recent global crisis. The decomposition suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429984
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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472521
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When the opportunity knocks : large structural shocks and gender wage gaps
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung - 2018
behavior of adjusted gender wage gaps in a wide selection of transition countries. We estimate comparable measures of adjusted … gender wage gaps for a comprehensive selection of transition countries over a period spanning nearly three decades. We … combine these estimates with measures of labor market reallocation in transition economies. We identify the episodes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964674
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When opportunity knocks: confronting theory and empirics about dynamics of gender wage inequality
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2021
structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We … find that for cohorts who entered the labor market after the onset of transition. Labor market shocks lead to significant … market during the transition. By contrast, we fail to find any significant relation for cohorts already active in the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415093
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Time Allocation between Work and Family Over the Life-Cycle : A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart; Mencarini, Letizia; … - 2021
This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using most recent data available from the Time Use National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316675