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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. It finds that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2017
This paper looks into institutional and other macro determinants of prevalence of informal dependent employment, as well as informal self-employment, in European countries, using European Social Survey data on work without legal contract in on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009. Consistently...
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Glass Barriers : Constraints to Women's Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade in Cambodia and Lao Pdr
Seror, Marlon Armand Remy - 2017
Trade facilitation projects often assume indirect benefits for small-scale, cross-border traders. Recent studies have shown the challenges faced in Africa by this population, especially women, but it remains unknown in Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic, despite large trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943012
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How Business Community Institutions Can Help Fight Corruption
Dixit, Avinash - 2017
This paper considers the possibility of collective action by the business community to counter corruption in the award … probability of winning the license or contract through bribery. An improvement in the government's formal anti-corruption …
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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation
Kim, Yeon Soo - 2019
This paper finds that informal workers are more likely to have inferior work conditions, but do not necessarily report worse subjective well-being. Starting with lower wages, but also with less regularity of hours and paid vacation, informal workers have higher incidence of envelope payments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864370
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Governors and Governing Institutions : A Comparative Study of State-Business Relations in Russia's Regions
Gharafutdinova, Gulnaz - 2017
regional-level factors influencing the business environment in Russia and, more specifically, conditions that favor the … informal rules, norms, and agreements for the regional-level business environment in Russia, the paper uses proxy variables … reveal that, at least in case of Russia, juxtaposing the state and business actors as separate and opposed to each other may …
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Can Enhancing the Benefits of Formalization Induce Informal Firms to Become Formal? Experimental Evidence from Benin
Benhassine, Najy - 2018
Governments around the world have introduced reforms to attempt to make it easier for informal firms to formalize. However, most informal firms have not gone on to become formal, especially when tax registration is involved. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the...
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Casting a Shadow : Productivity of Formal Firms and Informality
Amin, Mohammad - 2019
Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity between formal and informal firms in developing countries for which comparable data are available. It also investigates the impact of competition from informal firms on the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865434
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Assessing Urban Policies Using a Simulation Model with Formal and Informal Housing : Application to Cape Town, South Africa
Pfeiffer, Basile Fabrice - 2019
Building on a two-dimensional discrete version of the standard urban economics land-use model, this paper presents a tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing submarkets coexist. The dynamic closed-city framework...
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Are Minimum Wages and Payroll Taxes a Constraint to the Creation of Formal Jobs in Morocco?
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. - 2017
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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