This paper uses Unemployment Insurance (UI) administrative data combined with Current Population Survey data in 2003 to examine socioeconomic patterns in UI receipt for new job losers. We find that key socioeconomic groups ¨C women, nonwhites, youth, and workers with no high school diploma ¨C...

In the present study we have used the National Sample Survey (NSS) sixty-sixth round (2009-10) unit level data to analyze the various forms of insecurity faced by the workers in the informal sector enterprises of West Bengal and Kerala. The methodological framework of seven forms of insecurities...

A comparison is made between the most commonly used decision-making method (AHP), and two methods developed by the authors (APM and CSM). It is shown that the newly developed methods do not change the correlations and types of inequalities between the global priorities of the alternatives when...

There are several narratives connecting the financial crisis - as well as the Great Depression of the 1930s - with the functional or personal income distribution and its pre-crisis movements. The paper investigates whether this claim can be supported with evidence showing that the crisis was...

This paper attempts to explore the effect of finance constraints by examining the propensity of firms to save cash out of cash flows. Drawing on cash-cash flow sensitivity (CCFS), we overcome the errors in attributing information in cash flows to real and financial components. We employ...

This study examines the factors determining consumer fraud reporting in Kenya. It presents cross sectional evidence from data collected by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and KIPPRA in 2009/2010. Descriptive results show that the most prevalent consumer fraud in Kenya is the...

This paper explores income inequality from different angles. It tries to understand the possible reasons for income inequality that exist in the modern world. It supports the notion that exceptionally talented individuals using technology has been a reason behind rising income inequality. The...

The paper investigates the effects of changes in marital status and health related behaviors (smoking and drinking) on the body mass index (BMI) in Russian adults over a ten-year period. Smoking and drinking behavior changes have played an important part in health status changes over 1994 to...

We conduct four tests of screening in education. We apply our methodology to labor market data from Argentina, using two points in time, a period during which the returns to schooling in Argentina increased. There do not appear to be significant increases associated with years of schooling that...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the cases of success and failure of the Macedonian entrepreneurs. In an online survey, entrepreneurs were asked to recall experiences of success and failure date these experiences and assess how much they learnt as a result. The Results show interesting...