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Turkey can achieve strong sustainable growth and job creation but further reforms in the labour market, education and product markets are required for such gains to materialise. In recent years, growth has been largely driven by the industrial catch-up of Anatolian regions, although the Marmara...
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The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been in the informal sector, where workers are not...
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Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers...
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more inclusive state. This implies raising more tax revenue (without necessarily increasing tax rates) to expand social … protection. It also means promoting an inclusive labour market to reduce informality and increase female labour market …
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fight informality. Lowering the costs of formality, while enhancing its benefits and increasing the cost of non …
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The Indonesian labour market is characterised by widespread informality. To some extent, these outcomes can be … incidence of informality in urban areas are estimated separately by fixed effects and jointly by a seemingly unrelated …
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Informality often arises from disincentives associated with high taxes and a restrictive regulatory framework in both … estimated to have been undeclared in 2005. While Chile’s tax system is not particularly burdensome to business formality, there … reducing labour informality. To the extent that informal businesses also hire informally, there is some room for designing …
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, making it particularly difficult for the less educated to find a job. Labour informality is pervasive and turnover high … perpetuating income disparities. The main policy challenge is to improve labour utilisation by reducing informality and fostering …
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