Similar Search Results

Does the underground economy hold back;financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market<br>[L'economia sommersa Š un freno per lo sviluppo finanziario? Evidenze dai mer...

GOBBI, Giorgio; ZIZZA, Roberta - In: Economia Marche / Journal of Applied Economics XXXI (2012) 1, pp. 1-29

programme for immigrant workers, we also find that irregular labour has a negative effect on banks' decisions entry into local …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026789

Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable …. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored the strategic reactions of incumbent firms when threatened by the … possibility of entry. However, following De Soto (1989), there has been increasing emphasis on regulatory and institutional …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566382

Testing for heterogeneous business practices across firms in developing countries : the case of the Brazilian soft drink industry

Salvo, Alberto (contributor) - 2006

This paper estimates a structural model of the Brazilian carbonated soft drink industry to test the claim that the observed low prices of low-end entrants owe to marginal cost advantages over the large, established brands, allegedly stemming chiefly from tax evasion. Such entrants, numbering in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003742939

Challenges to formality from formal firms behaving informally : evidence from Central America

Pisani, Michael J. - 2022

quality certification, web presence, entry into global markets, and firm size …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305947

Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 138-153

the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777143

The informal sector wage gap: New evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292821

Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292906

Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?

Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - 2006

The informal sector (IS) plays a significant role in developing countries viz. the provision of employment, income and supplying ignored markets. However, working and employment conditions within the sector are still poor. Its expansion and changing structures have thus drawn the attention of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293528

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 workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers' managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while workers with low managerial ability will run smaller firms and will be in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293654

Determinants of the Informal Economy: The Importance of Regional Factors

Krakowski, Michael - 2005

This paper analyses the determinants of the size of the informal economy using crosscountry regressions. Two sets of global data using indirect estimation techniques and the perception of business leaders for 109 countries as well as a regional set for Latin America based on direct data are used...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295446