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Informal sector and corruption : an empirical investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2011

sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …

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Public and private sector jobs, unreported income and consumption gap in India : evidence from micro-data

Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … regression ; India …

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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction

Tansel, Aysıt; Gazioğlu, Şaziye - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Inconsistencies in reported employment characteristics among employed stayers

Bassi, Francesca (contributor); … - 2008

The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...

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Informal versus formal : a panel data analysis of earnings gaps in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe J.; Rakotomanana, Faly; Roubaud, … - 2016

Little is known about the informal sector's income structure vis-à-vis the formal sector, despite its predominant economic weight in developing countries. While most of the papers on this topic are drawn from (emerging) Latin American, Asian or some African countries, Madagascar represents an...

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Seeking rent in the informal sector

Kar, Saibal; Mandal, Biswajit; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2019

interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment … the gap. We identify conditions under which economic reform in the formal segment will increase the rate of corruption or … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …

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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 informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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Is there an informal employment wage premium? : evidence from Tajikistan

Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Staneva, Anita V. - 2012

This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2005), we find a significant informal...

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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment

Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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