the formal sector vs. informal sector, defined in various ways in accordance with the dual development models. The … informal sectors and where the legislation is often considered not to be enforced. Specifically, we provide evidence that …. Further, our results suggest that higher legal minimum wages raise the average wage of workers in these “informal” sectors …

-to-job shifts of workers, development of an informal labour market, etc.). The transformation in Russia has witnessed an increase in … moonlighting opportunities for workers and a rapid growth of the informal sector. To allow for this fact, which has a strong … the Russian state sector allowing workers to moonlight in the informal market. I introduce the motivational factor …

model a transitional economy with an informal sector. We apply and develop the idea first documented inter alia by Loayaza … (1996) that there are two types of regulations that influence the size of the informal labour market through two different … and can lead new firms to the informal sector. On the other hand, taxes and redundancy pay make official firms offer lower …

This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour … and informal sectors to show how a government’s auditing of informal firms and barriers to firms’ entry erected in the … formal sector by corrupt bureaucracy can make for stable coexistence of formal and informal jobs in the long term. In …

examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …