the effectiveness of supplementary efforts to enhance the presumed benefits of formalization by facilitating its links to … explained. The full package of supplementary efforts boosts the impact on the formalization rate to 16.3 percentage points …, demonstrating that enhancing the benefits of formalization does induce more firms to formalize. Firms that are larger, and that look …

formalization in Morocco, especially for youth and women …

one control group. One year after the program launch, all versions of the program had significant impact on formalization … outside Dantokpa Market, in sectors other than trade, and that before being offered the incentives to formalization had …

encouraging formalization has predominantly focused on reducing the direct costs of formalization and has found negligible impacts … enforcement angle, which could be an important tool to encourage formalization; and ii. targeting of government resources for … formalization to the high-end informal firms. The effects are generally small in levels and this leaves open the question of why …