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We examine the link between individual characteristics and sorting into different occupations using data from university students in Mozambique. We provide a comprehensive approach combining the main determinants of occupational sorting identified in the literature in a single framework to test...
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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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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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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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This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates …
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informality-and workers' transitions to decent work using multinomial logistic regressions and recent Labour Market Panel Surveys …
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The Indian labour market is characterized by a high level of informality, with large numbers of workers in poorly paid …
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