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Shades of grey in the informal economy

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2006
PurposeThis paper seeks to examine the influence of the national minimum wage (NMW) in the UK to small business owners operating in the informal economy.Design/methodology/approachUsing the clothing and restaurant sectors as a context, the responses of ethnic minority employers operating in the informal economy are examined in the light of market and ...
Jones, T. P., Ram, M., Edwards, Paul
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Charting the Grey Economy in the 1990s

Policy & Politics, 1991
The paper reviews evidence on the main changes which have affected elderly households in the 1980s and presents an assessment of likely trends in the 1990s. Changes in income, wealth, employment and housing are assessed to contribute to an integrated approach.
Bosanquet, N, Propper, C
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Grey control system of industrial economy based on fuzzy clustering algorithm

2021 4th International Conference on Information Systems and Computer Aided Education, 2021
The development of regional logistics industry has attracted more and more attention. The country and various regions have early or late release a set of relevant policies to guide the expand of regional logistics industry. This paper studies the rapid growth of regional economy by improving the key elements of regional logistics capacity.
Rongchang Liu, Yizhi Qiu
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Grey water treatment and circular economy

Chemosphere
Owing to the continuous decline in freshwater availability in many parts of the world, emphasis has been placed on sustainable utilization of available water. The reuse of treated wastewater generated from household activities, especially greywater, for non-potable purposes, could be a solution to the current situation.
Vasudha Agnihotri, Dinesh Chandola, Pooja Thathola   +2 more
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Grey and Black: The Hidden Economy of Rural China

Pacific Affairs, 1982
A HIDDEN ECONOMY of very substantial size exists in the Chinese countryside, lying beyond the reaches of state plans and official statistics. At its outermost margins, this hidden economy includes blackmarketing and criminal activities. But most of the hidden economy has tended to occupy a considerable "grey" zone of semi-legality: though illegal on ...
Anita Chan, Jonathan Unger
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Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial

The British Journal of Criminology, 2022
Abstract Online markets in cryptocurrency represent a sprawling and eclectic alternative financial system, selling cutting edge techno-investment schemes that are complex and high risk. Crime control is almost entirely absent from this new crypto economy, and it is full of scams.
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Decomposing the Grey Economy in Bulgaria: A General-Equilibrium Analysis

Journal of Mathematical Economics and Finance, 2022
This paper attempts to assess the size of the grey economy, and provide a decomposition by evasion type. The modelling approach utilizes a standard micro- founded general-equilibrium setup, which is augmented with a revenue-extraction mech- anism and a government sector.
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Grey System-Dynamics Analysis of Circular Economy

Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, 2011
According to the consumption of resources, environment and GDP, as well as the relationship among the three, this paper analyzes circular economy with the method of system dynamics. Firstly, the conception of green GDP is introduced, and the possibility of system dynamics is proven with the grey incidence analysis.
Jie-jue Zhao, Yao-guo Dang, Li-bo Zhang
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Grey Group Model Forecasting in the Field of Application of the Agricultural Economy

2011 International Conference on New Technology of Agricultural, 2011
Agricultural economic forecasts play an important role in the fields of industrial distribution, industrial structure adjustment and so on. At present, there are not any detailed researches on agriculture forecast. For the characteristics of the agricultural economy as well as the shortcomings and deficiencies of existing researches, this paper ...
Nan Liu
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An Approach of Grey Dynamic Metrological for Sport Economy Investigation

2016 International Conference on Robots & Intelligent System (ICRIS), 2016
The aim of this paper is by using an approach of grey dynamic metrological to investigate sport economy. Researching on how to improve the economic benefit of sport investment is the core of economic activities. On the basis of basic structure of grey theory system, this paper do some basic theory research on various type problems of sports economy and
Gao Dongmei, Yang Zhilong
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