Predominance of informal employment has been one of the central features of the labor market scenario in India. While the sector contributes around half of the GDP of the county, its dominance in the employment front is such that more than 90% of the total workforce has been engaged in the...

This study explores the factors affecting the production of maize among farmers in Mzumbe ward. It is important to understand the challenges facing these farmers in order to improve their yields and livelihoods. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, using both quantitative and qualitative...

The aim of this study was to estimate the consumption function of Nigeria and South Africa under the Permanent Income Hypothesis using a time series data on final household consumption expenditure, real GDP and real interest rate from 1980 to 2013. The study estimated parameter MPC long run time...

Islamic faith and the ethical dimensions of the individual and the community play a significant role in guiding economic behavior by connecting the worldly life to the hereafter. The Shariah-compliant faith and ethical values generate specific behavior that requires Halal earning, fairness in...

This paper aims to analyze the energy subsidy removal on the households’ welfare in Indonesia. First, we will model theoretically the welfare change measurement. In this paper, we will apply Compensating Variation (CV) and Equivalent Variation (EV) under Linear Expenditure System (LES)....

This paper attempts to present a value-added social welfare optimization problem as applied to capital investment projects with environmental amenities. A dynamic model is proposed with the objective of maximizing net social welfare for a desired flow of investment capital, given allowances for...

Intergenerational transfers are both common and markedly unequal. This study conducts a large-scale experiment to explore how Americans and Chinese perceive the fairness of unequal wealth transfers. In the experiment, workers and their parents completed assignments. Workers' payoffs originated...

In the following article, we analyzed a variable present in the ISTAT-BES dataset, namely "People You Can Count On"-PYCC for the Italian regions. Following an analysis of the time series aimed at highlighting the trends of the regions, we created a clustering with a k-Means algorithm optimized...

Abstract This paper considers the evolution of cost-benefit analysis, CBA, and proposes a foundation for its current use and continued development, to be called benefit-cost analysis, BCA. In the trajectory from CBA to BCA elements of a new foundation include first a recognition that there is a...

Intergenerational transfers are widespread and significantly unequal. This study explores people’s fairness preferences regarding inequality caused by wealth transfers from economically advantaged parents through a large-scale experiment. In the experiment, workers and their parents completed...