The current paper investigates the influence of demography, geographical constraints, and land regulation on house price in Malaysia based developers’ perspective. A survey questionnaire was distributed among real estate developers country for demographical factors, population growth, income, standard living, household confidence future prices are identified to be important determinants. Meanwh...

This study examines joint retirement in Finland. Employing a regression discontinuity design, the leverages exogenous variation provided by eligibility age for earnings-related pensions. The analysis yields three key findings. First, reaching has significant effect on an individual's retirement. Second, male spouses' at of 63 spillover their female spouses. Third, disaggregated analyses show th...

When studying income differences and income distribution the self-employed are often excluded. There are good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as income from being an employee. On the other hand it is a problem to exclude the self-employed if the group is large, the share who are self-employed differs between groups, and the ave...

110 The poor in Europe and Central Asia cite loss of stable income as the overwhelming factor associated with poverty. Poverty is largely the result of bad labor market outcomes, such as the loss of a paying job, the failure to be paid for work completed, or insufficient income because of a lack of the skills needed to compete in the new, more market-oriented economy. For those who are not able...

The current research develops and tests the theory that beliefs in economic mobility are affected by social capital at community level, especially for low-income individuals. Integrating concepts from perceived (PEM), this hypothesizes members of disadvantaged groups (vs. advantaged groups) more likely to adjust their PEM depending on level. Using archival data, multilevel analysis is employed ...

Abstract We examine two Pakistani programs to see if the public disclosure of tax information and social recognition top taxpayers promotes compliance. Pakistan began revealing income paid by all in 2012. Simultaneously, another program recognizing rewarding 100 tax- paying corporations, partnerships, self-employed individuals, wage earners. find that caused an increase 9 log points 17 payments...

Events in the building industry in Nigeria in the last decade show the important role the private sector played in housingfinance. With the advent of the public-private partnership concept in almost every sector of the socio-economic spheresof the nation, the role of the private sector in housing finance cannot be over-emphasized. This paper clearly states thatthe low-income public servants do ...

Central to the controversy over the new immigration is the worry that it has promoted an increase in the level of poverty and welfare utilization among immigrants. This study documents and explains immigrant-native trends and differentials in poverty and public assistance utilization during the period from 1960-1980. Results show that there is ample evidence that the level of poverty among im...

Background: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created several challenges including financial burdens that may result in mental health conditions. This study was undertaken to gauge difficulties during the and gain an insight into wage earners' health. Method: cross-sectional conducted through online survey. A t total of 707 individual Bangladeshi earners were enrolled between 20 30 May 2020. qu...