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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Segmentación del mercado de trabajo en la Argentina
Paz, Jorge - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2013)
En este artículo se analiza la segmentación laboral en el mercado de trabajo de la Argentina. Un mercado laboral está segmentado si trabajadores comparables arrojan diferencias en resultados (ejemplo, salarios), si sus mecanismos de fijación de remuneraciones difieren y si hay barreras que...
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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy: A Labour Market Approach
Bouev, Maxim - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677499
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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector
Bouev, Maxim - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677515
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Diverging Paths: Transition in the Presence of the Informal Sector
Bouev, Maxim - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
This work suggests a development of the seminal model of transition from plan to market economy by Aghion and Blanchard (1994). We introduce an informal sector to show that its presence can generate qualitatively di?erent steady states, to which the economy converges in the end of transition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652650
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Entrepreneurship and Compliance With Minimum Wage Law
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, we introduce firm heterogeneity in the context of a model of non-compliance with minimum wage legislation. The introduction of heterogeneity in the ease with which firms can be monitored for non compliance allows us to show that non-compliance will persist in sectors which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027136
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Normes du travail, migrations internes et emploi : une analyse théorique.
Bazillier, Rémi - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008
The goal of this paper is to determine the impact of the settings of labour standards on the level of dualism, employment and wages. Contrary to the "conventional wisdom", we show that the reinforcement of dualism due to the improvement of labour standards is not automatic. Under certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510600
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Regulation, governance and informality: an empirical analysis of selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
regulation has a significant pay off only in the ambit of good governance. More specifically we hypothesise that degree of … intensity of regulation will hardly matter in containing informality; rather what matters is the quality of governance and … 1980 and 2008, we empirically investigate into the linkages between governance, regulation and informal employment by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323213
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The causes and consequences of informality in Peru
Loayza, Norman - Banco Central de Reserva del Perú - 2007
Adopting a legal definition of informality, this article studies the causes of informality in general and with a … particular application to Peru. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality, as well as on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005443344
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El sector informal en México. Hechos y explicaciones fundamentales
Loayza, Norman; Sugawara, Naotaka - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXVI (4) (2009) 304, pp. 887-920
Adopting a legal definition of informality, this paper studies the causes of informality in general and with a … particular application to Mexico. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality. It then argues and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008616819