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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
La Porta, Rafael - 2010
In developing countries, informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) account for about half of all economic activity. We consider three broad views of the role of such firms in economic development. According to the romantic view, these firms would become the engine of...
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio A. - 2011
Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger worker displacements, but neither exporters nor comparative-advantage sectors absorb trade-displaced labor. On the contrary, exporters separate from significantly more and hire...
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The Informal Sector
de Paula, Aureo - 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of informal economic activity. We present two equilibrium models of informality and test their implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil. We define informality as tax avoidance; firms in the informal sector avoid tax payments but suffer...
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Informality and Development
La Porta, Rafael - 2014
We establish five facts about the informal economy in developing countries. First, it is huge, reaching about half of the total in the poorest countries. Second, it has extremely low productivity compared to the formal economy: informal firms are typically small, inefficient, and run by poorly...
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Growth in a Dual Economy
Blomstrom, Magnus; Wolff, Edward N. - 2021
Growth and structural transformation of the manufacturing sector in developing countries are generally considered to be the result of the expansion of the "modem" (large-scale) sector relative to the "traditional" (small-scale) sector. Examining the sources of labor productivity growth in...
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Distribution Capital and the Short- and Long-Run Import Demand Elasticity
Crucini, Mario J. - 2013
where this discrepancy between the short- and long-run elasticities is due to frictions in distribution. Goods need to be … combined with a local non-traded input, distribution capital, which is good specific. Home and foreign goods may be close … substitutes, but if distribution capital is slow to adjust then agents cannot shift their consumption in the short run following a …
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
moving from a Pareto to a lognormal distribution allows the Melitz model to match the role of the intensive margin in the EDD …. We use likelihood methods and the EDD to estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm …
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Indivisibilities in Distribution
Holmes, Thomas J. - 2018
to make its distribution network in both space and time. Indivisibilities are found to create significant scale economies … in distribution …
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason; Saouma, Richard E.; Seegert, Nathan; … - 2022
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Fullerton, Don - 2011
a restricted number of permits, (4) distribution of the benefits from improvements in environmental quality, (5 …
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