Hours Worked by Husbands and Wives

THIS article uses a simultaneous equation model to explain the number of hours of paid market work by husbands and wives. The analysis is restricted to married couples living together where both wife and husband have jobs working for money. Within this context, whites and blacks are compared as salaried, union hourly, and nonunion hourly groups. The substitutability or complementarity of husbands' and wives' hours of market work is examined. Black husbands appear to treat their wives' work as complementary to their own hours of work. On the other hand, white husbands on salaries appear to see their wives' work as a substitute for their own work.

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Remittances, Economic Growth and Poverty: A Case of African OIC Member Countries

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v57i2pp.121-143 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 121-143

Author(s):

Nasim Shah Shirazi ◽

Sajid Amin Javed ◽

Dawood Ashraf

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Financial Development ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Simultaneous Equation ◽

Equation Model ◽

Annual Data ◽

Simultaneous Equation Model ◽

African Countries ◽

Alternative Source ◽

The Impact

This paper investigates the impact of remittance inflows on economic growth and poverty reduction for seven African countries using annual data from 1992-2010. By using the depth of hunger as a proxy for poverty in a Simultaneous Equation Model (SEM), we find that remittances have statistically significant growth enhancing and poverty reducing impact. Drawing on our estimates, we conclude that financial development level significantly increases the remittances inflows and strengthens poverty alleviating impact of remittances. Results of our study further show a signficant interactive imapct of remittances and finacial develpment on economic growth, suggesting the substitutability between remittance inflows and financial development. We further find that 3 percentage point increase in credit provision to the private sector (financial development) can help eliminate the severe depth of hunger in the region. Remittances, serving an alternative source of private credit, can be effective in this regard. Keywords: Remittance Inflow, Poverty Alleviation, Financial Development, Simultaneous Equation Model

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PENGARUH ABILITY, BENEVOLENCE DAN INTEGRITY TERHADAP TRUST, SERTA IMPLIKASINYA TERHADAP PARTISIPASI PELANGGAN E-COMMERCE: STUDI KASUS PADA PELANGGAN E-COMMERCE DI UBM

Jurnal Riset Manajemen dan Bisnis (JRMB) Fakultas Ekonomi UNIAT ◽

10.36226/jrmb.v2i2.46 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 155-168 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David Wong

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Data Collection ◽

Structural Equation Model ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Likert Scale ◽

Equation Model ◽

The Other ◽

Predictor Variables ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Other Hand

This research aims at analyzing (1) the effect of vendor’s ability, benevolence, and integrity variables toward e-commerce customers’ trust in UBM; (2) the effect of vendor’s ability, benevolence, and integrity variables toward the level of e-commerce customers’ participation in Indonesia; and (3) the effect of trust variable toward level of e-commerce customers participation in UBM. This research makes use of UBM e-commerce users as research samples while using Likert scale questionnaire for data collection. Furthermore, the questionnaires are sent to as many as 200 respondents. For data analysis method, Structural Equation Model was used. Out of three predictor variables (ability, benevolence, and integrity), it is only vendor’s integrity that has a positive and significant effect on customers’ trust. On the other hand, it is only vendor’s integrity and customer’s trust that have a positive and significant effect on e-commerce customers’ participation in UBM. Keywords: e-commerce customers’ participation, ability, benevolence, integrity

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Keeping Company with Sondheim’s Women

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391374.013.0023 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Stacy Wolf

Keyword(s):

Musical Theater ◽

Married Couples ◽

Feminist Perspective ◽

The Self ◽

The Other ◽

Female Characters ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One

This chapter examines the eight female characters inCompany, what they do in the musical, and how they function in the show’s dramaturgy, and argues that they elicit the quintessential challenge of analyzing musical theater from a feminist perspective. On the one hand, the women tend to be stereotypically, even msogynistically portrayed. On the other hand, each character offers the actor a tremendous performance opportunity in portraying a complicated psychology, primarily communicated through richly expressive music and sophisticated lyrics. In this groundbreaking 1970 ensemble musical about a bachelor’s encounters with five married couples and three girlfriends, Sondheim’s female characters occupy a striking range of types within one show. From the bitter, acerbic, thrice-married Joanne to the reluctant bride-to-be Amy, and from the self-described “dumb” “stewardess” April to the free-spirited Marta,Company’s eight women are distillations of femininity, precisely sketched in the short, singular scenes in which they appear.

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Regionální konvergence v příjmech v rámci odvětví české ekonomiky

23rd International Colloquium on Regional Sciences ◽

10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9610-2020-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Pavel Zdražil

Keyword(s):

Regional Disparities ◽

The Other ◽

Hours Worked ◽

Crisis Period ◽

Low Intensity ◽

Sectoral Structure ◽

Other Hand ◽

Convergence Process ◽

Sigma Convergence ◽

Industrial Groups

The aim of this contribution is to assess the development of regional disparities in income within the sectors of Czech economy. Based on the average compensations of employees per hours worked, the sectoral structure is assessed at the level of 6 individual industries and 5 aggregated industrial groups. The research is carried out at the level of self-governing regions in 1995-2018. The sigma convergence approach is proceed to analyse the disparity processes. The analysis showed that individual sectors have very different positions in the economy in terms of both the share and dynamics of changes. Moreover, in the pre-crisis period (before 2008) the level and dynamics of variability were higher in most sectors. The results suggest that regional disparities in income are converging in most sectors; however, disparities are stable at the level of the whole economy. This development is a result of absence of convergence or divergence processes in sectors with large and growing shares on the structure of economy. On the other hand, the share of the converging sectors is stable or rather declining, while the convergence tendencies proceed with a very low intensity. Higher intensity of convergence process is achieved only by very minor sectors of economy.

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