The predominant type of firms in developing countries is small family firms and the self-employed in the informal … reasons for the low presence of firms employing non-family labour in the informal sector, using a firm-level data set drawn … from nationally representative repeated cross-sectional surveys of the Indian informal manufacturing sector. We find that …

The informal sector is an important source of livelihoods and jobs for a vast majority of people in developing … competition that formal sector firms face from informal sector firms affect research and development activity by the formal firms … large cross-section of mostly developing countries. The results show that higher informal competition leads to greater a …

The informal sector is an important source of livelihoods and jobs for a vast majority of people in developing … competition that formal sector firms face from informal sector firms affect research and development activity by the formal firms … large cross-section of mostly developing countries. The results show that higher informal competition leads to greater a …