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Social security schemes and labor supply in the formal and informal sectors
Ceni Gonzalez, Rodrigo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2014
This paper analyzes how changes in the social security scheme affect the participation path of workers between the formal and the informal sectors. The choice between the formal and informal sectors is completely voluntary. In this framework, individuals, depending on the retirement program and...
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Pension design with a large informal labor market: Evidence from Chile
Joubert, Clement - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2014
formal jobs rationing is limited and that mandatory pension contributions play an sizeable role in encouraging informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775241
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Informality, Saving and Wealth Inequality
Granda, Catalina; Hamann, Franz - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2015
The informal sector is an extensive phenomenon in developing countries. While some of its implications have drawn considerable attention in the literature, one relatively unexplored aspect has to do with the saving patterns of workers and firms and how these might influence aggregate savings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199239
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Product Quality, Informality, and Child Labour
Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors. The agrarian sector produces a homogeneous good and consists of informal firms employing adults and children. The modern sector produces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224869
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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006
assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688734
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Is there demand for formality among informal firms? Evidence from microfirms in downtown Lima.
Jaramillo, Miguel - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2013
A través de datos experimentales obtenidos de microempresas en el Cercado de Lima, este estudio analiza la demanda de formalización, es decir, de obtener una licencia de funcionamiento. Los hallazgos del estudio son paradójicos: la mayoría de empresas reporta más desventajas que ventajas de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739171
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Informality, financial development and macroeconomic volatility
Mitra, Shalini - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 3, pp. 454-457
capital constraint. Informality on the other hand lowers relative consumption volatility by weakening the working capital …
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Government policy in the formal and informal sectors
Prado, Mauricio - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1120-1136
to operate in the informal sector. I use cross-country data on taxes, measures of informality, and measures of regulation … similar decomposition to that of Hall and Jones (1999), I find that distortions associated with informality account for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573222
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Firm Registration and Bribes: Results from a Microenterprise Survey in Africa
Clarke, George R.G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
If corrupt bureaucrats target registered firms, then corruption may discourage registration. Using data from a survey of 4,801 microenterprises in Zambia, this paper looks at whether corruption is a more or less serious problem for registered firms. The paper finds results consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148036
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Informality and government enforcement in Latin America
Ceni Gonzalez, Rodrigo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2014
This paper analyzes how the informality responds to the quality of the labor enforcement and the bundle of benefits … that the formal workers receive in different countries of Latin America. Countries with different levels of informality … constraint, a representative firm chooses the share of workers in formality and informality that they want to hire, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098399