assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …

regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labor market and welfare effects of policies towards informality. …

We analyse potential dynamic benefits for a firm from having the option of adopting informal status. Informality may be … a stepping stone, without which formality might never be achieved. This result obtains for a broad range of realistic … parameter values, suggesting a potential dynamic case for government support of informal firms. Informality may alternatively …

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …

developing countries advance their development objectives, even where enforcement capacity is weak and informality is pervasive. …

by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …