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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth

Loayza, Norman - 2016

"Informality" is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries-in a typical developing economy, the informal sector produces about 35 percent of gross...

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Study on Skills Development for the Informal Sector of the Nigerian Economy

Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research - 2009

The problems of employment have become a central global concern in recent times. This makes nearly all the governments and development partners to be fully engaged in finding a lasting solution to the problems. In the past, development planning efforts were concentrated on the development of a...

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Pathways to formalization : going beyond the formality dichotomy : the case of Peru

Díaz, Juan José; Chacaltana, Juan; Rigolini, Jamele; … - 2018

Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint...

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An Opportunity for All : Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees and Peru's Development

World Bank Group - 2019

objective of this study is to determine the social, economic and sectoral implications that this phenomenon is having on Peru … characterizes the different dimensions of the Venezuelan migration to Peru: from the trajectory to the country, the institutional … integration of the migrant and refugee population in Peru …

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Busting the myth : the impact of increasing the minimum wage : the experience of Romania

Heemskerk, Frank; Voinea, Liviu; Cojocaru, Alexandra - 2018

This paper discusses the impact of a gradual, pre-announced significant increase of the minimum wage during 2013-16 in Romania. The main finding is that the positive effects prevail when the starting level of increase in the minimum wage is very low and the economy is in a negative output gap....

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Informality, harassment, and corruption : evidence from informal enterprise data from Harare, Zimbabwe

Francis, David - 2019

New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe exposure: those with higher opportunity costs of formalizing and with a higher ability to pay...

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Are Minimum Wages and Payroll Taxes a Constraint to the Creation of Formal Jobs in Morocco?

Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. - 2016

This paper uses a search-and-matching model to examine the effects of labor regulations that influence the cost of formal labor (notably minimum wages and payroll taxes) on labor market outcomes in Morocco. The model assumes that the informal sector is unregulated and thus not directly affected...

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Informal Enterprises in Kenya

World Bank - 2016

This note draws from an emerging literature on firm informality as well as data collected on micro enterprises and informal firms as part of the World Bank's enterprise survey initiative for Kenya. The purpose of the note is to assess the main constraints facing informal firms, identify patterns...

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Extending Pension Coverage to the Informal Sector in Africa

Guven, Melis - 2019

The coverage of pension systems in the Africa region is limited to the small segment of the population in the formal sector. Coverage is thin partly because traditional contributory pension schemes are not responding to the needs of the informal sector. As a result, a large share of the region's...

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Informality, Job Quality, and Welfare in Sri Lanka

World Bank Group - 2020

Informal employment remains a salient and persistent feature of the Sri Lanka labor market, with around 70 percent of the work force informally employed. There are generally three reasons to be concerned about high informality: poverty, productivity and public finance. This report focuses on the...

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