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Job change and self-control of waste pickers: evidence from a field experiment in the Philippines [PDF]
Environmental Economics, 2018 Environmental policies may have a negative side effect on employment, often in a specific industry in the short run. Workers in regulated industries can be affected by losses in job-specific human capital. The informal sectors in developing countries are
Hide-Fumi Yokoo +3 more
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Beliefs about informal payments in Albania [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2006 Informal payments for health care are a growing concern in Albania and other transitional economy countries. Recent international studies have shown that informal payments can have negative effects on health care access, equity and health status by causing people to forgo or delay seeking care, or sell assets to pay for care. Many countries are putting
Vian, T., Burak, Lydia
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Semantic Ambiguities and Classification Struggles in the Post-Socialist Informal Medical Economy
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2021 In this paper I will engage in a process of highlighting the way in which liberal and, later, neoliberal political agendas regulate and establish formal semantic registers in the field of medical informal economy within the Romanian public healthcare ...
Palaga Cristine
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Informal payments in Romanian health care system. A sample selection correction
Sociologie Românească, 2020 This paper draws on economic theory, sociology and political science approaches to explain informal payments in the Romanian health care system. It estimates the likelihood of paying a bribe (informal payment) using a reduced health care demand equation ...
Bianca Buligescu, Henry Espinoza Peňa
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THE IMPACT OF THE 2008-2009 GLOBAL CRISIS ON CORRUPTION: EVIDENCE FROM MANUFACTURERS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2021 In this study, we examine how the 2008-2009 Global Crisis has affected the informal payments/gifts paid by manufacturing firms. We compare the crisis period to the post-crisis period and found that the manufacturing firms believed that the incidence of
HALIL D. KAYA, ENGKU NGAH S. ENGKUCHIK
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Agora International Journal of Economical Sciences, 2023 Most countries worldwide are undergoing digitalization, with the adoption of non-cash payment methods accelerating. In recent years, the population and economic entities in our country have readily embraced the use of digital technologies.
Zakir Zeynalov
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Informal payments in public hospitals in Greece
Health Policy, 2008 Informal payments are an ingrained social institution in Greece. In some cases, they are also part of corruption in the health area, which includes a variety of other forms.The objective of this paper is to measure and analyze the size and nature of informal payments in the Greek public hospitals, concentrating on payments made to health personnel to ...
Liaropoulos, L. +4 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objective While discrete choice experiments (DCEs) have been used in other fields as a means of eliciting respondent preferences, these remain relatively new in studying corrupt practices in the health sector.
Blake Angell +6 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background In 2014, a revision of the national medical tariffs for inpatient health care services took place in Iran, and a new hotline was set up to report informal payments.
Leila Doshmangir +4 more
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Revue de la Régulation, 2020 Informal payments to healthcare professionals in post-soviet health systems persisted, despite the healthcare reforms. That is true in independent Tajikistan, where the increase in those payments has been associated with increased forgone care and the ...
Sandra Pellet
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