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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt?
Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015
This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different …
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A helping hand or the long arm of the law? : experimental evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms
Andrade, Gustavo Henrique de; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, … - 2013
results show most informal firms won't formalize unless forced to do so, suggesting formality offers little private benefit to …
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Determinants of transitions across formal
Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2015
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We … first provide a diagnosis of dynamic worker flows across different labor market states. We develop transition probabilities …
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