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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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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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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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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets

Launov, Andrey; Günther, Isabel - 2006

It has recently been argued that the informal sector in developing countries shows a dual structure, with part of the informal sector being competitive to the formal sector and part of the informal sector being the result of market segmentation. We formulate an econometric model to test this...

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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets

Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - 2006

It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...

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Informal-Formal Worker Wage Gap in Turkey: Evidence From A Semi-Parametric Approach

Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - 2011

Using individual level data from Turkstat Household Labor Force Survey for 2005-2009 period and a variety of parametric and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a wage gap between formal and informal workers and whether...

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The Informal Labour Market in India: Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?

Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja); Shonchoy, Abu - 2013

This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...

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Expansão econômica e aumento da formalização das relações de trabalho: Uma abordagem através das contratações

Corseuil, Carlos Henrique L.; Foguel, Miguel N. - 2011

We investigate both theoretically and empirically the relationship between economic expansion and the degree of formalization of the Brazilian labor market in the recent period. Based on search models, we present a theoretical framework that attempts to explain the recent increase in the share...

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What happened to real earnings in Egypt, 2008 to 2009?

Cichello, Paul; Abou-Ali, Hala; Marotta, Daniela - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-38

Nominal earnings in Egypt did not respond to the increase in inflation between February 2008 and February 2009, resulting in a 12.3 (9) percent decline in average (median) real earnings among 25 to 60 years old workers. Changes in earnings differ significantly by groups: (i) those with higher...

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The informal labour market in India: Transitory or permanent employment for migrants?

Shonchoy, Abu S.; Junankar, P. N. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-27

This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether internal migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their lifetime income and living conditions. We limit our study to the Indian urban...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603701

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