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Altruism and Workers' Remittances : Evidence from Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia
Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques - 2006
. Tunisia. …
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Why Is Tunisia's Unemployment So High? Evidence From Policy Factors
Belgacem, Aymen - 2023
Tunisia has one of the highest unemployment rates within the Middle East and Central Asia. We look at the extent to … institutional factors that affect labor demand explain not only about a quarter of the unemployment rate increase in Tunisia, but … also Tunisia's excess sensitivity of unemployment to the output gap. Our results suggest that an improved business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059052
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Measuring the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Vuletin, Guillermo Javier - 2008
This paper estimates the size of the informal economy for 32 mainly Latin American and Caribbean countries in the early 2000s. Using a structural equation modeling approach, we find that a stringent tax system and regulatory environment, higher inflation, and dominance of the agriculture sector...
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Informality and Bank Credit : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Koeda, Junko - 2008
The paper relies on a firm-level data on transition economies to examine the relationship between informality and bank credit. We find evidence that informality is robustly and significantly associated with lower access to and use of bank credit. We also find that higher tax compliance costs...
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Informality, Labor Market Dynamics, and Business Cycles in North Africa
Bizimana, Olivier - 2023
Employment informality is widespread across North Africa. This paper aims to shed light on the role played by the … confirms that informal employment is countercyclical and acts as a buffer during economic downturns in countries with … relatively higher informality. However, contrary to what took place in past recessions, informal employment contracted sharply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059182
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Designing a Presumptive Income Tax Based on Turnover in Countries with Large Informal Sectors
Wei, Feng - 2023
Turnover (sales) is frequently used in developing countries as a presumptive income tax base, to economize on the costs of tax administration and taxpayer compliance. We construct a simple model where a size threshold separates firms paying turnover tax from those paying profit tax (regular...
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Unveiling the Informal Economy: An Augmented Factor Model Approach
Yao, Jiaxiong - 2024
This paper develops a new approach to estimating the degree of informality in an economy. It combines direct yet infrequent measures of the informal economy in micro data with an augmented factor model that links macro indicators of the informal economy to its causes. We show that the prevailing...
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Minimum Wages, Inequality, and the Informal Sector
Machado Parente, Rafael - 2024
How do minimum wages affect earnings inequality in countries with large informal sectors? I provide reduced-form evidence that the 2000s minimum wage hike in Brazil raised overall inequality by increasing inequality inside the informal sector. I develop a model where heterogeneous firms select...
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Measuring the Informal Economy in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Abdih, Yasser; Medina, Leandro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
self employment and the percentage of currency held outside the banking system. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790402
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Can policies affect employment intensity of growth? : a cross-country analysis
Crivelli, Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; Toujas-Bernaté, Joël - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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