This study examines the distributional impact of three types of lottery games offered for sale by the South Carolina Education Lottery (SCEL). We significant sales variation by game type across age and race. We also find each of the three types of game offered by the SCEL to be regressive, as measured by the Suits Index, but we find substantial differences in the degree to which each game is re...

This paper studies the business cycle dynamics of income and wealth distributions in the context of the neoclassical growth model where agents are heterogeneous in initial wealth and non-acquired skills. Our economy admits a representative consumer which enables us to characterize distributive dynamics by the evolution of aggregate quantities. We show that inequality in both wealth and income f...

Awell-staffed sales function is vital to business success (Fogel, Hoffmeister, Rocco, & Strunk, 2012); however, many organizations struggle filling this important sales function because there is a shortage of qualified salespeople in today’s workplace on both a domestic and global market (Cummins, Peltier, Erffmeyer, & Whalen, 2013). To satisfy this need there has been a major growth of Univers...

We study the impact of E-commerce across state lines in the United States on tax revenue, public good provision, and real income. In particular, in light of the unenforceable nature of interstate taxation, we evaluate the potential gains from coordinating sales and income state taxes among sovereign jurisdictions. We find that the revenue at risk is small and that the welfare gains or losses of...

a r t i c l e i n f o Empirical research concerning the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in shaping business-to-business salesforce job satisfaction remains relatively scarce. The authors propose and empirically test a causal model that theoretically represents structural relationships among factors comprising ICT and eventual salesper-son job satisfaction. Study results i...

BACKGROUND Road traffic fatalities (RTF) are among the top ten causes of deaths in the world. The risk factors for RTF fatal victims have been extensively characterized, but studies of household burden of RTF have been very few in number. Accordingly, this article investigates post-crash impacts on RTF victims' family members, including the adverse impacts of lost income, occupational disruptio...

E-business software solutions allow the integration of intra and inter firm business processes; it involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners.According to the empirical analysis, we can get that there exist a long-term equilibri...