The recent growth experience in India highlights the role of skill-based service sector and productivity improvement rather than a significant rise in physical capital accumulation. In this context we study the possible impact of higher productivity of labor in the formal sector on the informal...

We model international trade in renewable resources between a single buyer and competitive sellersas a Stackelberg differential game. The buyer uses unit and ad valorem tariffs to indirectly encourageconservation of the renewable resource under study. First, we show that the efficacy of these...

We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to informal labor market in a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated strategies. We argue that firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to...