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Product quality, informality, and child labour
Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - 2011
This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors. The agrarian sector produces a homogeneous good and consists of informal firms employing adults and children. The modern sector produces a...
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Informality, saving and wealth inequality in Colombia
Granda Carvajal, Catalina; Hamann S., Franz A. - 2015
features labor and capital market segmentation, and it is calibrated to replicate the saving rates, wealth inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290050
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The informal sector in contemporary models of the aggregate economy
Leal, Julio - 2014
affected by the presence of informality and how such distortions have an impact on aggregate variables. The authors in this … informality that is increasing with firm size: reducing informality entails a tradeoff because there are some distortions … show that, in general, reducing informality brings gains. In conclusion, substantial progress has been made in …
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Tolerance of noncompliance : discretion rather than simple rules?
Forteza, Alvaro; Noboa, Cecilia - In: Estudios de economía 46 (2019) 1, pp. 31-59
We argue that societies sometimes choose not to enforce the law to gain “flexibility”. Especially developing countries face a dilemma between discretion and commitment to only partially-contingent rules. Rules are good for incentives, but discretion may be more “flexible”. We embed this...
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Migration with Pension Reform Expectations
Góra, Marek - 2018
Pension reforms, which imply a reduction in the generosity of pension benefits, are becoming widespread in response to the demographic transition. The scale, the timing, and the pace of these reforms vary across countries. In this theoretical article, authors analyse individual migration...
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Labor Earnings Dynamics in a Developing Economy with a Large Informal Sector
B. P. Gomes, Diego - 2020
by these segments of the labor market, as well as the high frequency of transitions between them. Informality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852838
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Misallocation, Informality, and Human Capital : Understanding the Role of Institutions
D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2014
the level of informality. We propose a firm dynamics model where firms face capital market imperfections and costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056102
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Efficiency in a search and matching economy with a competitive informal sector
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - 2012
results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies. …
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Cross-subsidies, and the elasticity of informality to social expenditures
Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Leal, Julio - 2014
frictions model with informality, (ex post) heterogeneous workers, and conditional taxes and transfers. In the model, formal … informality is quite inelastic due to frictions, and due to the opposing forces of taxes and transfers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459828
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The NAIRU and informality in the Mexican labor market
Aguilar-Argaez, Ana María; Alcaraz, Carlo; Ramírez, … - 2020
includes informality as an indicator of labor underutilization. We find that both measures of NAIRU and the associated labor … informality seems to predict inflationary pressures more accurately when the unemployment gap is close to zero. …
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