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Tackling the illegal practice of under-reporting employees' wages : lessons from the Republic of Macedonia
Williams, Colin C.; Bezeredi, Slavko - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 243-258
Recently, there has been growing recognition that some formal employees receive from their formal employers two wages, namely an official declared wage plus an additional undeclared (envelope) wage, which reduces the tax and social contributions paid to the authorities. The aim of this paper is...
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Property rights, entrepreneurship and coordination
Harper, David A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 88 (2013) C, pp. 62-77
The notion of plan coordination enjoys a central place in the analysis of institutions and competitive market processes. The conventional wisdom is that institutions and policies vary in the extent to which they promote competition and how quickly and completely they bring individuals’ plans...
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Institutions, Finance and the Level of Development: the Impact on Entrepreneurship in Transition
Mickiewicz, Tomasz Marek; Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 1 (2010) 1
) institutional obstacles to entrepreneurship have different impact in rich countries compared to poor countries; (b) institutional … obstacles have a stronger impact on 'opportunity entrepreneurship' than on 'necessity entrepreneurship'; (c) two institutional … indicators - property right protection and access to finance - appear to have a dominant impact on entrepreneurship; (d …
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Medium term effects of culture, transactions and institutions on opportunity entrepreneurship
Petrakēs, Panagiōtēs E.; Kostis, Pantelis C. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
, transaction and institution characteristics in the determination of opportunity entrepreneurship, at the medium-term. A series of … expected, the conclusions confirm that the cultural traits both positively and negatively affect opportunity entrepreneurship … institutions is conducive to opportunity entrepreneurship. Performing a sensitivity analysis, we construct a hypothetical, more …
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A comparison of EPI sampling, probability sampling, and compact segment sampling methods for micro and small enterprises
Chao, Li-Wei; Szrek, Helena; Peltzer, Karl; Ramlagan, … - In: Journal of Development Economics 98 (2012) 1, pp. 94-107
Finding an efficient method for sampling micro- and small-enterprises (MSEs) for research and statistical reporting purposes is a challenge in developing countries, where registries of MSEs are often nonexistent or outdated. This lack of a sampling frame creates an obstacle in finding a...
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Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process: From microcredit to microfinance
Ashta, Arvind; Couchoro, Mawuli; Musa, Abu Saleh - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3 (2014), pp. 1-23
, through its wide range of innovatively distributed products, can be a key factor to foster entrepreneurship. …
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Court-ship, kinship and business: A study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 7, pp. 1-21
In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
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A tale of two species: Revisiting the effect of registration reform on informal business owners in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 275-283
municipalities with high pre-reform constraints to formal entrepreneurship. These results explain why Bruhn (2008, 2011) finds no …
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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 7, pp. 1-21
In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429969
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Taxation, credit constraints and the informal economy
Araujo, Julia P.; Rodrigues, Mauro - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 1, pp. 43-55
This paper extends Evans and Jovanovic (1989)'s entrepreneurship model to incorporate the informal sector. Specifically …
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