Income Inequality and the Informal Economy in Transition Economies

By J. Barkley Rosser Jr., M. V. Rosser, E. Ahmed. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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A quantile regression decomposition of urban–rural inequality in Vietnam (2007, unknown): “2 present the coefficients and their z-ratios for quantiles 5, 25, 50, 75, and 95 for the two survey years.(24) The coefficient on the urban dummy measures the urban-rural gap that is unexplained by”
Pushing the envelope: the `informalization' of labour in post-communist new EU member states (2007, background): “Nevertheless, what these various forms of employment have in common is their embeddedness in an ‘economy of precariousness’, a major factor in nearly all Eastern Europe countries where it is linked to the increasing gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ (Barkley Rosser et al., 2000).”
Research on entrepreneurship in the informal economy: Framing a research agenda (2013, background): “Finally, focusing specifically on income inequality in 16 Central and Eastern European countries, Rosser et al. (2000) suggest that income inequality not only creates strain, but also may undermine confidence and trust in government (i.e., citizens blaming the system for inequality), motivating…”
All for All: Equality and Social Trust (2005, background): “Every country for which there are data on changes in economic inequality save one (Slovakia) showed an increase in economic inequality from 1989 to the mid-1990s (Rosser, Rosser, and Ahmed 2000).”
Informal Entrepreneurship and Industry Conditions (2016, background): “The voluntary exit from the formal economy may be motivated by entrepreneurs’ distrust in the competence and goodwill of institutional policy makers (Maloney, 2004; Rosser et al., 2000).”