Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,181
Cover Image
Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries
Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2016
links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may increase inequality …Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … opportunities for low-skilled and deprived people. Despite this positive feedback, informality raises problems for public finances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665024
Cover Image
Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries : a bidirectional relationship between informality and inequality exists : in transition and emerging countries, hig...
Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2021
. Policymakers should consider the links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may …Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … distribution by providing sources of income for unemployed and marginalized workers. Despite this positive feedback, informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254304
Cover Image
The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in … the level of informality. Results suggest the importance of tailored data set selection when modelling IE with MIMIC. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285538
Cover Image
Decomposing inequality changes in Uruguay : the role of formalization in the labor market
Amarante, Verónica; Arim, Rodrigo; Yapor, Mijail - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 13, pp. 1-20
inequality and in the incidence of labor informality, while similar changes also took place in other Latin American countries … on the relation between informality and wage inequality through a RIF-based regression decomposition analysis which …. These trends were observed in a period of strong economic dynamism. Most extended explanations for this declining inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655796
Cover Image
Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466614
Cover Image
Informal employment in emerging and transition econimies : reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic growth
Slonimczyk, Fabián - 2014
opportunities to enter the formal sector. Reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417249
Cover Image
Do public sector employment reductions promote informality?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2023
Using information from all IMF conditionality programs from 1990 to 2018, we implement a dynamic Augmented Inverse Probability Weighting Regression Adjustment approach to examine the effects of programs, including public sector dismissals, on the size of the shadow economy. The estimated effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332129
Cover Image
Informal employment in emerging and transition economies : reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic growth
Slonimczyk, Fabián - 2022
opportunities to enter the formal sector meaning informal employment is the only feasible option. Reducing informality requires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254477
Cover Image
Theories and definitions of the informal economy : a survey
Dell' Anno, Roberto - In: Journal of economic surveys 36 (2022) 5, pp. 1610-1643
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464587
Cover Image
Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346442