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and implicitly mistaken for lucrative tax bases. First, I critically interrogate current conceptualizations of informality … to highlight how the informality that materially affects revenue mobilization goes beyond the hitherto narrow focus on … the visible informal sectors. I then demonstrate that informality is only one among many factors negatively associated …
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Despite rapid economic growth in recent decades, informality remains a persistent phenomenon in the labour markets of … many low- and middle-income countries. A key issue in this regard concerns the extent to which informality itself is a … heterogeneity in the transition patterns observed for workers in upper-tier versus lower-tier informality. Given the limited …
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services. Using firm census data from 2014 for Ghana, we measure the rates of informality along extensive (unregistered firms … informality along both margins across sectors following mining shocks are heterogeneous. We also find that the lack of duality …
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We examine the nature of labour market inequality in Indonesia and India, using a common conceptual approach drawing from the job ladder framework. In the framework, we differentiate between self-employment and wage-informal and between formal, upper tier informal, and lower tier informal jobs....
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We present the first study that examines the effects of ethnic diversity on informal work. Using two waves of data from the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey, we find that ethnic diversity is associated with a higher probability of engaging in informal work. Specifically, our instrumental...
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different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of … registration with the authorities, and the third definition relates to three groupings of the informality status of a firm …'s workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance …
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informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are …
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different sectors and the impact of tax changes on the extent of informality in developing countries is, however, very limited …
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also face a lower probability of being hired in such jobs. The findings indicate the segmentation of Mexican labour markets …
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Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...
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