This study aims to analyze the household income of capture fisheries business actors in Indonesia. The data used is latest from Indonesian Agricultural Sector Household Income Survey collected 2014 by Central Bureau Statistics. Specifically, this uses datasets 28,727 fisher households spread across 33 provinces. By using OLS regression, found that apart age head household, education level and s...

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success? A random sample of customers of India’s largest women’s bank was offered two days of business counseling, and a random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention significantly increased participants’ business activity, but only if they were trained with a friend. Those trained with a fr...

The following paper advocates an active rural employment policy in order to reduce rural poverty in the development countries and initiate a sustainable development process. The permanent large increases in the population call for a significant number of employment and income opportunities. As the agricultural sector’s capacity to provide employment is limited, the only alternative is the rural...

Abstract We use newly linked tax records to show that the large responses of UK company owner-managers personal taxes are due intertemporal income shifting and not reductions in real business activity. Around half this is short-term helps prevent volatile incomes being taxed more heavily under progressive taxes. The remainder reects systemic profit retention over long periods take advantage low...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence and characteristics of tobacco sales and point-of-sale promotions and advertising in predominantly Latino business districts, and in comparison districts; and the economic importance of tobacco sales and marketing to Latino owned small businesses. DESIGN Observational surveys of retail establishments and interviews with store managers. SETTING Demographica...

This paper use income tax return data from 1960 to 2000 to analyze the link between reported incomes and marginal tax rates. Only the top 1% incomes show evidence of behavioral responses to taxation. The data displays striking heterogeneity in the size of responses to tax changes overtime, with no response either short-term or long-term for the very large Kennedy top rate cuts in the early1960s...