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Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2011

expenditure surveys. We apply this method to the case of Bulgaria using LSMS income and expenditure surveys before and after a … ; crisis ; Bulgaria …

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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

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Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Who are the microenterprise owners? : evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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The effects of labor market policies in an economy with an informal sector

Albrecht, James W. (contributor); Navarro, Lucas (contributor) - 2006

. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, can have important spillover effects on the … market policies in an economy with an informal sector. Our model extends Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) by allowing for ex … ante worker heterogeneity with respect to formal-sector productivity. We analyze the effects of labor market policy on …

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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings : a marginal treatment effects approach

Arias, Omar (contributor); Khamis, Melanie (contributor) - 2008

labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and … work. This is consistent with labor market comparative advantage considerations. On the contrary, informal salaried …

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Conceptualising informality : regulation and enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply...

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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...

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Is the wage curve formal or informal? : evidence for Colombia

Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan C.; Suriñach Caralt, Jordi - 2009

market, informal workers (both men and women), a high negatively sloped wage curve was found. This result is consistent with …

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A note on informality in the labor market

Khamis, Melanie - 2009

This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand … of the labor market this paper makes an empirical contribution to the debate in the literature on the concept of …

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