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informality in the global North and document the diverse trajectories that informal processes may take. My analysis reveals that … informal and semi-formal solutions are not simply ‘tolerated’ or ‘overlooked’ by the state, but co-produced by urban dwellers …
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Cross-border traders face a choice between official and unofficial border crossings. The latter allow them to evade taxes, but expose them to other risks, such as bribes, fines, and arrest. We investigate the perceptions of cross-border traders about the risks of trading officially vs...
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. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which informality is prohibited. With relatively high product demand, the … effect of entrepreneurs being free to choose informality is that consumer surplus and total employment are reduced, but … also show that informality may be a built-in stabilizer or destabilizer. …
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assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …
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What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
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Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
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Civil conflict in Syria, started in March 2011, led to a massive wave of forced immigration from Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey, which later had serious economic/political repercussions on the MENA region and most of Europe. This paper exploits this natural experiment to...
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The informal settlements in the Global South, mostly comprising of inadequate building solutions, are growing rapidly, therefore calling for more sustainable construction interventions and upgrading strategies. Within this context, this study considers that appropriate construction strategies...
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paper aims at establishing a link between the theories on informality and marginalization which is another important issue … for every actor to participate either in the formal, the informal or in both economies. Informality has multiple sources …, the connection between informality and involuntary exclusion shall be examined in a retrospective of economic thought …
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It is well known that the size of the informal (black or grey) economy causes serious fiscal problems for Hungary. This study makes an attempt to quantify the budgetary and macroeconomic effects of different ways of widening the formal sector (whitening”) with the help of a model. It turns out...
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