formal and informal sectors in order to enhance their performance and growth. Unfortunately, there is no agreed method by … identify the different contextual dimensions influencing formal and informal enterprise creation processes in SSA. …

Central to the scientific debate about the 'informal sector' and the validity of the concept used to be a twofold … challenge. The crux laid not only in the objective to explain the widely visible persistence of the informal economy in … and self-enforcing. On the macroeconomic level, any economy – be it formal or informal – consists of a set of different …

informal sector, with a special focus on the PublicChoice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two … criteria used to define the informal sector, therelationship between the formal and informal economy, tax evasion, and …

sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by the formal sector to the lower wage … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …, but not necessarily formal-to-informal outsourcing, and, in response, the developed nation wage can fall. Productivity …

A quantitative framework of firm dynamics is developed where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial … while reducing the size of the informal sector. Introducing size-dependent taxes reduces the gains from financial …