A5023694254- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
- Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
- Religion and Society in Latin America
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Economic Growth and Development
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Media Influence and Politics
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Graph Labeling and Dimension Problems
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
- Geometric and Algebraic Topology
- Point processes and geometric inequalities
- Social Media and Politics
- Political Theory and Democracy
- Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
Fundación Juan March
2008-2024
University of Sheffield
2013-2023
Recognizing that enterprises operate at varying levels of informality, this paper evaluates the determinants their degree informality. Reporting a 2012 survey 300 informal microenterprises in city Lahore Pakistan, finding is key predictors level informality are characteristics entrepreneur and enterprise, rather than motives or wider formal institutional compliance environment. Lower degrees associated with women, older, educated, higher income entrepreneurs older employees manufacturing...
To advance understanding of the entrepreneurship process in developing economies, this article evaluates whether registered enterprises that initially avoid cost registration, and focus their resources on overcoming other liabilities newness, lay a stronger foundation for subsequent growth. Analyzing World Bank Enterprise Survey data across 127 countries, controlling firm performance determinants, started up unregistered spent longer operating are revealed to have significantly higher annual...
Purpose – Reflecting the moral theorisation of bribery as a negative phenomenon, has been widely shown to have deleterious impact at national level on economic development and growth. The purpose this paper is evaluate whether it also case firm that impacts performance. Until now, few studies conducted in individual nations regions produced mixed results. Here, therefore, more comprehensive evaluation relationship between performance undertaken across developing world....
Vaccination can sufficiently ameliorate the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Investigating what factors influence vaccine uptake may benefit ongoing vaccination efforts (e.g. booster injections, annual vaccination). The present study expanded Protection Motivation Theory with possible including perceived knowledge, adaptive responses, and maladaptive responses to develop a proposed model investigating among United Kingdom (UK) Taiwan (TW) populations. An online survey collected from UK...
Although non-ideological voters make up a considerable share of the electorate, literature has systematically overlooked their voting behaviour. Using Spanish electoral data from 1979-2008 period, we seek to identify alternative cues ?in absence ideology? these may use when casting ballot. We do not find that evaluations incumbent?s performance have greater influence on voters, as retrospective suggests. Nor other shortcuts such candidate or party identification are used more by this group...
Over the past decade or so, two competing theoretical perspectives have arisen that explain participation in informal entrepreneurship as resulting from either too little much state intervention. To evaluate these explanations critically, authors report on a 2012 UK survey of 595 small business owners. Twenty per cent owners said they had traded informally when starting up their ventures, and examine reasons for doing so. It was found 41% entrepreneurs attributed off-the-books trading to...
The aim is to evaluate critically whether small businesses start-up in the informal economy and they do so test-trade viability of their businesses. Reporting a 2012 survey 595 business owners UK, 20% report trading informally when starting business, 64% whom asserted main reason was test its viability. Some 13% all therefore test-trading economy, although multivariate analysis shows that started by men, with low current annual turnovers particular sectors are significantly more likely so....
Political representation has been widely studied from a theoretical perspective, but empirical research more scarce, mainly due to the lack of suitable data. This article attempts contribute this flourishing field with an analysis results survey that was administered in 1997 both Spanish MPs and citizens, which inquired about different aspects political representation. We concentrate on analysing way role representative is conceived by citizens MPs, as well perception parties process The...
Rather than portray formal and informal sector entrepreneurs as discrete groups, an emergent scholarship has conceptualized a continuum from wholly to entrepreneurs. The aim of the article is advance degree (in)formality approach by evaluating whether institutional determinants found explain enterprise or are also valid when explaining level enterprises. To do so, 2017 survey 500 retail microenterprises in city Lahore Pakistan reported. finding that higher levels formality more significantly...
Este artículo explora la relación entre religiosidad y las preferencias electorales en España Portugal. Estudiamos si religión (medida como asistencia a oficios religiosos opiniones sobre asuntos morales) tiene influencia el voto los dos principales partidos nacionales. Los resultados del análisis apuntan una diferente ambos países: sólo creencias religiosas desempeñan un papel destacado comportamiento electoral. Defendemos que explicación este hallazgo se encuentra conjunto de factores cabe...
This article investigates the relationship between sharing of domestic tasks in dual-earner mixed-sex couples and use paid services. Using results from a small-scale survey outsourcing practices employees large service-sector organisation UK, we find that households: full-time working by women presence younger children is positively associated with services; there no association gender division traditionally female carried out within couple but contrast, greater male involvement...
To evaluate critically the assumption that consumers participating in cash-in-hand transactions are rational economic actors simply seeking a lower price, evidence from 26,659 interviews conducted 27 European Union member states 2007 is reported. This reveals price sole reason for just 44% of all informal economy purchases, one several reasons 28% such purchases and not cases. A multinomial logit regression analysis how vary across populations. The implications explaining consumer culture...
We define a hierarchical clustering method: $\alpha$-unchaining single linkage or $SL(\alpha)$. The input of this algorithm is finite metric space and certain parameter $\alpha$. This method sensitive to the density distribution offers some solution so called chaining effect. also modified version, $SL^*(\alpha)$, treat through points small blocks. study theoretical properties these methods offer background for treatment effects.