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Afonso, Oscar; Gonçalves, Nuno - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 23-57

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the volume of the Non-Observed Economy (NOE) in Portugal, by estimating, based on MIMIC models (multiple indicators multiple causes), its path in the period 1977-2008. On the one hand, given the influence of the tax burden, the burden of...

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The causality between government revenue and government expenditure in Iran

Elyasi, Yousef; Rahimi, Mohammad - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 129-145

The causal relationship between government revenue and government expenditure is an important subject in public economics especially to the control of budget deficit. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between government revenue and government expenditure in Iran by...

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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

highlight that any expected disproportionate impact of economic liberalization on women is more likely to come from civil …

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...

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Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender : parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador

Göbel, Kristin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … employed men and women who tend to be well-educated. The consequences of this dramatic segmentation of labor market … of employed women, among other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns …

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Brutto größer als Netto : geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede unter Berücksichtigung von Steuern und Verteilung

Granados, Patricia Gallego; Geyer, Johannes - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 28, pp. 3-12

Despite all initiatives to eliminate the gender pay gap in Germany, men continue to earn considerably more than women … OECD countries. The yawning gap between men and women's pay is particularly evident when we look at average gross monthly … income: in western Germany, men have a 62 percent higher gross monthly income than women, on average. In eastern Germany, men …

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Subjective well-being and selected economic, demographic, and job factors in OECD countries

Marilou, Ioakimidis; Kiohos, Apostolos - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 71-81

This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...

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An den Frauen vorbei : Frauenanteil in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors stagniert

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 3, pp. 14-22

. -- financial sector ; board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; public and private banks ; insurance companies …

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Spitzengremien großer Unternehmen : Hartnäckigkeit männlicher Strukturen lässt kaum Platz für Frauen

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 3, pp. 3-12

erhofften Durchbruch bei den Besetzungen von Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten geführt. -- board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender …

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