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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita - 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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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India : Evidence from Micro-Data

Kar, Saibal - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate …

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The Puzzles and Contradictions of the Indian Labour Market : What Will the Future of Work Look Like?

Verick, Sher Singh - 2018

of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … remains a defining feature with rising informalization in the formal sector. Some outcomes partly reflect India's overall …

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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning : Evidence from a Large Public Program in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2013

female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female …

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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Tansel, Aysıt - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics Among Employed Stayers

Bassi, Francesca - 2009

The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...

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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier - 2015

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,...

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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance

Kar, Saibal - 2011

We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...

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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth

Hazans, Mihails - 2011

European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...

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Informal Workers Across Europe : Evidence from 30 Countries

Hazans, Mihails - 2011

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK...

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