International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 43 Issue 8

Credit constraints and their impact on farm household welfare: Evidence from Vietnam’s North Central Coast region

Minh Chau Tran, Christopher E.C. Gan, Baiding Hu

– The purpose of this paper is to identify factors affecting formal credit constraint status of rural farm households in Vietnam’s North Central Coast (NCC) region.

Human capital development for SMEs in Pakistan: is the “one-size-fits-all” policy adequate?

Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Chandran Govindaraju, Evelyn S. Devadason

Pakistan adopted “one-size-fits-all” policy for human capital (HC) development with the assumption that the level of HC is equal across industry and firm size. The purpose of this…

An economic analysis of the philosophical common good

Tim Murphy, Jeff Parkey

The purpose of this paper is to analyze economically several versions of the philosophical common good in order to contribute to the search for a viable conceptualization of the…

Religion and earnings: evidence from Germany

Elisabeth Sinnewe, Michael Kortt, Todd Steen

– The purpose of this paper is to estimate the association between religious affiliation and the rate of return to human capital for German men and women.

Institutional environment, political connections of partial state ownership, and performance: An empirical study on listed private sector firms in China

Zengji Song, Abraham Nahm, Jun Yang

– The purpose of this paper is to examine whether substantial differences in institutional environment in China lead to different levels of demand for political connection.

Socioeconomic determinants of profitability of fresh fish marketing in Ogun State, Nigeria

Abiodun Elijah Obayelu, Aisha O. Arowolo, Shakirat Bolatito Ibrahim, Caroline Oluwakemi Oderinde

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the socioeconomic determinants of profitability of fresh fish marketing in Ogun State, Nigeria.