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Informalidad en los tiempos del COVID-19 en América Latina: Implicaciones y opciones de amortiguamiento
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Lotti, Giulia; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604890
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Informalidad en los tiempos del COVID-19 en América Latina : implicaciones y opciones de amortiguamiento
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Lotti, Giulia; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586219
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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - 2006
assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293528
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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
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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
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Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Danquah, Michael - 2020
We present the first study that examines the effects of ethnic diversity on informal work. Using two waves of data from the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey, we find that ethnic diversity is associated with a higher probability of engaging in informal work. Specifically, our instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299566
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Domestic revenue mobilization and informality : challenges and opportunities for sub-Saharan Africa
Gwaindepi, Abel - 2022
and implicitly mistaken for lucrative tax bases. First, I critically interrogate current conceptualizations of informality … to highlight how the informality that materially affects revenue mobilization goes beyond the hitherto narrow focus on … the visible informal sectors. I then demonstrate that informality is only one among many factors negatively associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419021
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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
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
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A matching model of endogenous growth and underground firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - 2012
A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector and human capital. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of the underground sector, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524922
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Financial dependence, formal credit, and informal jobs: new evidence from Brazilian household data
Catão, Luis A. V.; Pagés, Carmen; Rosales, Maria Fernanda - 2009
This paper examines a much overlooked link between credit markets and formalization: since access to bank credit typically requires compliance with tax and employment legislation, firms are more likely to incur such formalization costs once bank credit is more widely available at lower cost; if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269636