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Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Fresh-Water Grown Leafy Vegetables 消费者购买淡水种植叶菜的意愿

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/JAEBS.446

Salah Udin Buzdar, S. M. Khair, Syed Munawar Shah

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Analysis of Natural Resources and Environment, Politico-Economic Conditions and their influences on Tourist Behavioural Intentions in Hunza: Mediating effect of Tourist Satisfaction 罕萨自然资源环境、政治经济条件及其对游客行为意向的影响分析:游客满意度的中介作用

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/jaebs.443

Faqeer Muhammad, K. Ullah, R. Karim

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Foreign remittances and income inequality in Pakistan: A Pooled Regression Analysis 巴基斯坦的外国汇款与收入不平等:一个汇总回归分析

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/JAEBS.4211

Sana Suleman

{"title":"Foreign remittances and income inequality in Pakistan: A Pooled Regression Analysis","authors":"Sana Suleman","doi":"10.34260/JAEBS.4211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34260/JAEBS.4211","url":null,"abstract":"The people from developing countries like Pakistan move to developed countries to earn their bread and butter. Consequently, such migrants remit a handsome part of their earnings to their dependents living in homeland. Foreign remittances have multidimensional impact on the economy of a developing country. The study evaluates the impact of foreign remittances on income inequality in Pakistan by estimating the set of fixed effect and random effect models using the pooled data from eight household income and expenditure surveys between 1998/99 and 2015/16. Gini coefficient as well as generalized entropy measure is used to estimate income inequality, but the results remain intact. It is observed that foreign remittances have statistically significant favorable impacts on income inequality in Pakistan. Further, the results are robust and insensitive to control variables (e.g. income and poverty measures, headcount ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap). The policy measure is that Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BEOE) should be empowered to explore the job opportunities in developed countries. The government should assist the migrants through subsidizing the visa and migration processes to capitalize the foreign remittances.","PeriodicalId":300552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121300829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the Approaches to Measure the Value of Household Work: An Experience from Pakistan 探索衡量家务劳动价值的方法:来自巴基斯坦的经验

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/JAEBS.447

Hamna Nasir, A. Fatima, S. Alam

{"title":"Exploring the Approaches to Measure the Value of Household Work: An Experience from Pakistan","authors":"Hamna Nasir, A. Fatima, S. Alam","doi":"10.34260/JAEBS.447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34260/JAEBS.447","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to fill the gap in the knowledge by estimating the value of time spent on household work especially by women i.e study aims to assess the economic worth of time. Specifically, the objective of this research is to estimate the value of time using two approaches, the one estimating opportunity cost and the other estimating the market price/value of household work. The value of time is estimated for different types of household activities. In addition, the study also assesses the determinants responsible for accelerating the opportunity cost and market value of time during the past three decades in Pakistan as well critically study assess why the household is not diverting its human capital towards the paid employment though the value of time has increased substantially. The determinants mainly focus on personal and demographic characteristics as these factors are responsible to keep the individuals engaged in household activity. The determinants are explored using Pooled OLS. Results show that the opportunity cost of household work performed by male and female worth around Rs.26,082/week and Rs.155,126/week; whereas the market price of male and female are estimated around Rs.22,908/week and Rs.63,813/week respectively. Further, the results of this study confirm that the opportunity cost of all non-market activities is greater than the market value indicating that the work performed by individual at home(necessary to be performed) should be recognized as it has substantial economic worth. Hence this research contributes to knowledge by enhancing the understanding of policymakers about the economic contribution made especially by women through household work – that often remain unaccountable.","PeriodicalId":300552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124313637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Wage disparities between high and low wage cities with and without the cost of living within Punjab and Sindh: An application of Oaxaca-Blinder using PSLM with HIES 旁遮普省和信德省高工资和低工资城市之间的工资差距:瓦哈卡-布林德使用PSLM与HIES的应用

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/jaebs.441

Farrukh Mahmood, Shumaila Hashim, Uzma Iram, M. Chishti

引用次数: 2

Suffering Silence While Exposed to Workplace Bullying: The Role of Psychological Contract Violation, Benevolent Behavior and Positive Psychological Capital 遭受职场欺凌时的沉默:心理契约违反、仁慈行为和积极心理资本的作用

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/jaebs.442

Namra Jamshaid, Sadia Arshad

{"title":"Suffering Silence While Exposed to Workplace Bullying: The Role of Psychological Contract Violation, Benevolent Behavior and Positive Psychological Capital","authors":"Namra Jamshaid, Sadia Arshad","doi":"10.34260/jaebs.442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34260/jaebs.442","url":null,"abstract":"Becoming impediment to organizational functioning in several ways, the prevalence of workplace bullying costs much to organizations. As in the current transition phase of Pakistan, the intentions to leave doesn’t manifest in actual turnover rates. Hence the current study is conducted to analyze the passive coping strategies of employees in the face of workplace bullying. It is theorized that the relationship is mediated by psychological contract violation. Moreover, it is predicted that the process of mediation is stronger for individuals who report high levels of benevolent behavior and perceives psychological capital to be low. \u0000Data is collected from 359 young doctors and nurses of three government administered hospitals. Results indicate a significant bullying-silence relationship where psychological contract violation plays a role of partial mediator. Moreover, benevolence and PsyCap are powerful moderators to alter the already established relationship. Conclusions of the current study are further elaborated in terms of their practical contribution and future directions. Workplace bullying is an organizational reality. Hence efforts to make an entire bullying-free environment is next to impossible. So, in addition to make an effort in ending up this maltreatment, managers must limit its consequences by understanding its dynamics. Reduce the bullying culture and save precious resources i.e. potential employees.","PeriodicalId":300552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128134049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Appraisal of the Role of Islamic Banking Development and Economic Growth 伊斯兰银行发展与经济增长的作用评价

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/JAEBS.4410

T. Hussain, Noman Arshed, Rukhsana Kalim

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Do Regulations on Smoking Limit Cigarette Demand? An Empirical Evidence from Pakistan 吸烟条例会限制香烟需求吗?来自巴基斯坦的经验证据

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.34260/JAEBS.448

Assad U. Khan, A. Shah

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The Performance Effect of HPWS and Relational Coordination on Branch Efficiency: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach 基于数据包络分析的HPWS绩效和关系协调对分支机构效率的影响

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI: 10.34260/jaebs.428

M. Saddique, Z. Khan, S. Gul

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An empirical testing of comparative efficiency of static and dynamic factor models towards stock returns’ predictability in capital market of Pakistan 巴基斯坦资本市场股票收益可预测性静态和动态因素模型比较效率的实证检验

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI: 10.34260/jaebs.427

Laila taskeen Qazi, Atta ur Rahman, Shahid Ali, S. Alam

{"title":"An empirical testing of comparative efficiency of static and dynamic factor models towards stock returns’ predictability in capital market of Pakistan","authors":"Laila taskeen Qazi, Atta ur Rahman, Shahid Ali, S. Alam","doi":"10.34260/jaebs.427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34260/jaebs.427","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient Market Hypothesis has its supporters and critics as it has invited significant attention of research scholarship in recent years. The taxonomy and existence of this hypothesis is widely debated in terms of making economic decisions in the capital markets. Stock returns predictability has galvanized researchers to use forecasting models. Literature shows that forecasting is possible yet it debates problems associated with the techniques used for forecasting from the time series data. The study relies on stock returns for 67 randomly selected companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. The static and the dynamic factor models are compared in terms of forecast efficiency. The study also uses eight macroeconomic variables to forecast stock returns by including gold prices, crude oil prices, market capitalization, PSX- 100 index, PSX-100 index turnover, KIBOR 1-month rates, KIBOR 3 years rates and Rupee to Dollar rates. The results of the hit rates and out-of-sample forecasting technique suggest that dynamic factor model is the best multivariate time series forecasting model in the Pakistani context.","PeriodicalId":300552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126514722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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