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Informal employment in emerging and transition econimies : reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic growth
Slonimczyk, Fabián - 2014
In developing and transition economies as much as half the labor force works in the informal sector (or "shadow economy"). Informal firms congest infrastructure and other public services but do not contribute the taxes needed to finance them. Informal workers are unprotected against such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417249
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Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries
Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2016
Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665024
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Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries : a bidirectional relationship between informality and inequality exists : in transition and emerging countries, hig...
Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2021
Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … opportunities for low-skilled and deprived people. As a result, informal employment leads to beneficial effects on income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254304
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Cash wage payments in transition economies : consequences of envelope wages : reducing under-reporting of salaries requires institutional changes
Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra; Williams, Colin C. - 2021
staff an official salary, described in a registered formal employment agreement, and an extra, undeclared "envelope wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254372
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Informal employment in emerging and transition economies : reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic growth
Slonimczyk, Fabián - 2022
opportunities to enter the formal sector meaning informal employment is the only feasible option. Reducing informality requires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254477
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Cash wage payments in transition economies : consequences of envelope wages : reducing under-reporting of salaries requires institutional changes
Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra - 2016
staff an official salary, described in a registered formal employment agreement, and an extra, undeclared "envelope wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514536
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The shadow economy in industrial countries : reducing the size of the shadow economy requires reducing its attractiveness while improving official institutions
Enste, Dominik - 2015
The shadow (underground) economy plays a major role in many countries. People evade taxes and regulations by working in the shadow economy or by employing people illegally. On the one hand, this unregulated economic activity can result in reduced tax revenue and public goods and services, lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429964
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The shadow economy in industrial countries : reducing the size of the shadow economy requires reducing its attractiveness while improving official institutions
Enste, Dominik - 2018 - Version 2
The shadow (underground) economy plays a major role in many countries. People evade taxes and regulations by working in the shadow economy or by employing people illegally. On the one hand, this unregulated economic activity can result in reduced tax revenue and public goods and services, lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934117
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Fighting employment informality with schooling : labor force composition is critical for understanding employment informality in developing countries
Haanwinckel, Daniel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2017
Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation enforcement, temporary contracts, and changes in taxes imposed on small firms. However, improvements in the labor force’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737287
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Do economic reforms hurt or help the informal labor market? : the evidence is mixed on whether and how economic reforms benefit informal labor
Kar, Saibal - 2016
. Reforms lead to higher wages and improved employment conditions in the informal sector in some cases, and to the opposite … effect in others. At a cross-country level, lifting trade protection boosts informal-sector employment. The direction and … size of the impacts on informal-sector employment and wages are determined by capital mobility and the interactions between …
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