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Conceptualising informality : regulation and enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply a tight definition consistently, the literature as a whole is in a mess. This … specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A …) regulation applicable and compliant, (B) regulation applicable and non-compliant, (C) regulation non-applicable after adjustment …

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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining : A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector

Bouev, Maxim - 2005

This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government's...

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Conceptualizing informality : regulation and enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

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Conceptualising informality: regulation and enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 52 (2009) 1, pp. 33-42

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A helping hand or the long arm of the law? : experimental evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms

Andrade, Gustavo Henrique de; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, … - 2013

Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations....

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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique - 2013

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Law Enforcement and the Size of the Informal Sector

Acosta-Henao, Miguel - 2020

I assemble new cross-country evidence showing that contrary to the standard view, the relationship between the size of the informal sector and tax rates is, at best, ambiguous. Law enforcement and informality also show no clear relation. Motivated by these findings, I augment a standard...

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Imperfect law enforcement, informality, and organized crime

Mascarúa, Lara Miguel A. - 2022

How does imperfect law enforcement affect drug trafficking, predation on firms, informality, and aggregate production? To quantify it, a general equilibrium occupational model is developed in which there is room for drug trafficking, crime against businesses, and tax evasion in the presence of...

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Enforcement of labor market regulations : heterogeneous compliance and adjustment across gender

Viollaz, Mariana - In: IZA journal of labor policy 7 (2018) 2, pp. 1-28

This paper explores microdata from Argentine household surveys to analyze how changes in the enforcement of labor regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly decentralized labor inspection system in Argentina, I construct...

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Weberian civil service and labor enforcement

Dewey, Matías; Ronconi, Lucas - 2023

Most workers in the developing world do not receive the benefits they are legally entitled to. Why, then, is there so little public enforcement? This paper argues that this is partly because of a lack of an autonomous and professional bureaucracy. Using a novel dataset with objective measures of...

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