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La finanza informale nelle economie in via di sviluppo
Mauri, Arnaldo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2000
The financial systems and financial markets of developing countries have a common feature: the dualism. This means the co-existence and operation side by side of a formal or institutional financial sector and of an informal or non-institutional financial sector. The great diversity of informal...
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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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Informality as a Stepping Stone : Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2021
entry in this context …
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Informality: the doorstep of the legal system
Russo, Francesco Flaviano - In: Open economics 1 (2018) 1, pp. 49-70
. Small, less productive, entrepreneurs, facing high entry costs, start informally, waiting to become more productive before …
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2006
It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226045
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - 2006
It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296549
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2007
It has recently been argued that the informal sector of labor markets in de- veloping economies shows a dual structure with part of the informal sector being competitive to the formal sector and part of the informal sector being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765437
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566443
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Measurement of innovation in the informal sector in Africa : the importance to industrial policy
Mustapha, Nazeem; Petersen, Il-haam; Jegede, Oluseye Oladayo - In: Innovation and development : RIAD 12 (2022) 2, pp. 325-342
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326638
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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of … licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by … discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence fee, bureaucratic delay creates a strategic opportunity, which can result …
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