This paper looks into institutional and other macro determinants of prevalence of informal dependent employment, as well as informal self-employment, in European countries, using European Social Survey data on work without legal contract in on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009. Consistently...

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. It finds 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...

In this study, the author uses an innovative methodology to better understand andexplain the informal sector in West Africa. The book gives policy recommendations forimproving competitiveness and productivity growth

The purpose of this paper is to detect the relevance degrees of formal and informal institutions at the level of local regulation, as well as their effects on the local companies’ productivities. Indeed, by an analysis of the territory of the Ksar-Hellal town, we noted that informal...