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The unofficial economy and economic development
La Porta, Rafael; Shleifer, Andrei - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (2008) 2, pp. 275-363
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The unofficial economy and economic development
La Porta, Rafael; Shleifer, Andrei - 2008 - Rev.
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
La Porta, Rafael - 2010
In developing countries, informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) account for about half of all economic activity. We consider three broad views of the role of such firms in economic development. According to the romantic view, these firms would become the engine of...
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
La Porta, Rafael - 2009
In developing countries, informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) account for about half of all economic activity. We consider three broad views of the role of such firms in economic development. According to the romantic view, these firms would become the engine of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720126
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
Porta, Rafael La - 2008
In developing countries, informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) account for about half of all economic activity. We consider three broad views of the role of such firms in economic development. According to the romantic view, these firms would become the engine of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464127
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Informality and development
La Porta, Rafael; Shleifer, Andrei - 2014
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Informality and development
La Porta, Rafael; Shleifer, Andrei - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 28 (2014) 3, pp. 109-126
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Informality and Development
La Porta, Rafael - 2014
the total in the poorest countries. Second, it has extremely low productivity compared to the formal economy: informal … regulations is an important reason for informality, the productivity of informal firms is too low for them to thrive in the formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052683
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Informality and Development
Porta, Rafael La - 2014
the total in the poorest countries. Second, it has extremely low productivity compared to the formal economy: informal … regulations is an important reason for informality, the productivity of informal firms is too low for them to thrive in the formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458461
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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers
Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2012
We develop a model where formal sector firms pay tax and informal ones do not, but informal firms risk incurring the penalty associated with non-compliance. Workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees. Workers with higher managerial skills will run larger firms while...
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