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Conceptualising informality : regulation and enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - 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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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining : A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector
Bouev, Maxim - 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...
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Conceptualizing informality : regulation and enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837979
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Conceptualising informality: regulation and enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 52 (2009) 1, pp. 33-42
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A helping hand or the long arm of the law? : experimental evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms
Andrade, Gustavo Henrique de; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, … - 2013
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations....
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Law Enforcement and the Size of the Informal Sector
Acosta-Henao, Miguel - 2020
I assemble new cross-country evidence showing that contrary to the standard view, the relationship between the size of the informal sector and tax rates is, at best, ambiguous. Law enforcement and informality also show no clear relation. Motivated by these findings, I augment a standard...
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Imperfect law enforcement, informality, and organized crime
Mascarúa, Lara Miguel A. - 2022
How does imperfect law enforcement affect drug trafficking, predation on firms, informality, and aggregate production? To quantify it, a general equilibrium occupational model is developed in which there is room for drug trafficking, crime against businesses, and tax evasion in the presence of...
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique - 2013
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081806
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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010
regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for … ; regulation …
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The determinants of informality in Mexico's states
Dougherty, Sean M.; Escobar, Octavio - 2013
Informality has important implications for productivity, economic growth, and the inequality of income. In recent years, the extent of informal employment has increased in many of Mexico's states, though highly heterogeneously. The substantial differences across states in terms of informal...
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