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Pension design with a large informal labor market : evidence from Chile
Joubert, Clement - 2014
This paper investigates empirically the fiscal and welfare trade-offs involved in designing a pension system when …
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Entrepreneurship in the shadows : wealth constraints and government policy
Tumen, Semih - 2016
I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580568
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The informal sector in contemporary models of the aggregate economy
Leal, Julio - 2014
I review a contemporary branch of the informal sector literature that focus on understanding the way firm behavior is affected by the presence of informality and how such distortions have an impact on aggregate variables. The authors in this group all make use of dynamic general equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437139
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Pension programs around the world : determinants of social pension
Rudolph, Alexandra - 2016
Old-age poverty is to become one of the most pressing issues in the coming decades given the demographic trends forecasted. Particularly in developing countries this could be an obstacle to inclusive and sustainable growth as well as the fight against all forms of poverty (SDG 1), through shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518737
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Grandfathers and grandsons : social security expansion and child health in China
Yang, Jinyang; Chen, Xi - 2022
We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS). NRPS was rolled out in full scale since 2012, and rural enrollees over age 60 are eligible to receive a minimum of 70 CNY non-contributory monthly pension. We leverage...
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Using HHoT to generate institutional minimum income protection indicators
Marchal, Sarah; Siöland, Linus; Goedemé, Tim - 2019
This paper aims to show how the newly developed Hypothetical Household Tool of the EUROMOD microsimulation model can be used to generate institutional minimum income protection indicators. It does so by updating the CSB’s Minimum Income Protection Indicators (CSB-MIPI) dataset using EUROMOD...
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Welfare: savings not taxation
Douglas, Roger; MacCulloch, Robert - 2017
Many nations are seeking to reform their welfare states so that costs to the government can be reduced and the quality … how tax cuts can be designed to help establish compulsory savings accounts so that a publicly funded welfare system can be … a tax and welfare reform can be jointly designed to enable this transition to occur has not been done before. Our policy …
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Informal sector misallocation
Lopez-Martin, Bernabe - 2016
A quantitative framework of firm dynamics is developed where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial constraints and the burden of taxation. Improving access to credit for formal sector firms increases aggregate TFP and output while reducing the size of the informal sector....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489988
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How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?
Demenet, Axel; Hoang, Quynh - 2018
Is the lack of "managerial capital", alongside human and financial capital, a constraint on the growth of firms in developing countries? The evidence on this is still mixed, especially among small and medium enterprises. This paper uses a panel of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874046
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Gender and informal sector analysis in India : economy wide approaches
Sinha, Anushree (contributor); Khan, Haider Ali (contributor) - 2008
The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social accounting matrix (SAM) and general equilibrium models...
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