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Traditional slavery institutions and democratization : insights into intercaste human capital disparities in Sumba Island's rural areas, Indonesia

Raya, Umbu Reku; Resosudarmo, Budy P. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-11

This study aims to bridge the gap in the existing literature by examining the impact of prevailing traditional slavery institutions and democratization processes on human capital development. In our pursuit, we conducted a residential survey in Sumba Island, Indonesia. Notably, despite...

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Why do household businesses in Viet Nam stay informal?

Tran Thi Bich; Hai Anh La - 2018

, especially the top tier firms, become formal either because they perceive benefits of formalization such as an increase in the … the pre-formalization trends, our results show that productive household businesses stay informal because net costs from … tax payment may surpass net benefits from formalization. Moreover, government controls do not promote formalization …

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Violent conflicts in ARMM : probing the factors related to local political, identity, and shadow-economy hostilities

Capuno, Joseph J. - 2017

The Philippines has a long history of internecine warfare or conflicts, especially in Mindanao where the secessionist conflicts alone since the 1970s have resulted in enormous human and economic costs. That violent social discords remain varied and widespread in Mindanao underscores the need for...

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Illegal immigration and the shadow economy

Camacho, Carmen; Mariani, Fabio; Pensieroso, Luca - 2015

We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...

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Explaining and tackling undeclared work in south east europe : lessons from 2019 eurobarometar survey

Williams, Colin C. - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18

The aim of this paper is to evaluate two contrasting ways of explaining and tackling undeclared work. The rational economic actor approach theorizes undeclared work as arising when the benefits of undertaking undeclared work outweigh the costs, and the policy focus is upon deterring undeclared...

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Explaining and tackling the informal economy: an evaluation of competing perspectives

Williams, Colin C. - In: Open economics 2 (2019) 1, pp. 63-75

This paper provides an evidence-based evaluation of the competing ways of explaining and tackling the informal economy. Conventionally, participants have been viewed as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the benefits outweigh the costs, and thus participation is...

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The long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short-run relationship. These results hold even when alternative...

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Does corruption contribute to the rise of the shadow economy? : empirical evidence from Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach and granger causality econometric methods we find a positive relationship between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in...

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What sustains informality? : a study of the interactions between formal- and informal-sector firms

Mishra, Ajit - 2021

We consider two vertical links between informal- and formal-sector firms and study their implications. In one case, the final products produced by the formal- and informal-sector firms are vertically differentiated in terms of quality, and the size of the informal sector demand is related to the...

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Informal employment or informal firms? : regulatory enforcement and the transformation of the informal sector

Jain, Sanjay - 2021

While there is general agreement that regulatory avoidance is an important part of firms' decisions to produce in the informal sector, there is much less agreement on how regulation and enforcement affect firms' decisions on, inter alia, which sector they locate in, their employment decisions,...

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