As in other socialist command economies, it became part and parcel of the way India's so-called "Permit Raj" worked; taking baksheesh in return for doing their jobs was the way that government employees eked out their miserable salaries.
I had grown up around Hayes in Middlesex and worked taking coaches of people from there into clubs in central London and arranging small parties in local pub halls.
We shall try to analyze what were the variable and invariable factors in the industrial society and how did the dual industry-community system worked, taking the mining city of Anina, from Romania as a case study.
The dependent variable in Eq. (1) is firm i's hourly value added, obtained by dividing the total value added (at factor costs) of firm i in period t by the total number of hours worked (taking into account paid overtime hours) that have been declared for the same period.
7. "I worked taking ticket money at the county fair, and skimmed money off every night, with a partner in crime.
