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Recessionary shock, capital mobility and the informal sector

Mandal, Biswajit; Marjit, Sugata; Beladi, Hamid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Using the hybrid of Heckscher - Ohlin and Specific Factor models of trade we show that economic recession led shock results in a loss for both capitalists and skilled workers. Some of the unionized unskilled workers lose formal sector employment and move onto the informal sector. In case capital...

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Would Recessionary Shock Induce More Intermediation in the Informal Sector?

Mandal, Biswajit - In: Journal of Economic Integration 26 (2011), pp. 740-751

This paper attempts to give an idea about the upshot of a recessionary phase on the intermediation activity which is required for the survival of the informal fragment of a society. Informal part of the economy covers a large chunk of the total economic activities in any developing economy....

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Foreign direct investment, environmentally sound technology and informal sector

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper examines the linkages between foreign direct investment, informal sector and transfer of environmentally sound technology (EST) in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with an informal sector that produces a non-traded input for the...

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Foreign direct investment, environmentally sound technology and informal sector

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - In: Economic Modelling 31 (2013) C, pp. 206-213

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Informal Wage, Informal Price and Extortion under Migration and Tariff Reform

Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we propose a theoretical model where formal and informal sectors co-exist in tandem. Trade union segregates some labor from being formal. Capital is not allowed to freely move between formal and informal sectors. Using this sort of framework it has been shown that immigration of...

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Gender and informal sector analysis in India: Economy wide approaches

Sinha, Anushree; Khan, Haider A. - 2008

The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social accounting matrix (SAM) and general equilibrium models...

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Would Recession Induce More Intermediation in the Corrupt Informal Sector?

Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper my endeavor is to give you an idea about the upshot of a recessionary phase on the intermediation activity which is required for the survival of the informal fragment of the society. Informal part of the economy covers a large chunk of the total economic activities in any stylized...

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Gender and informal sector analysis in India : economy wide approaches

Sinha, Anushree (contributor); Khan, Haider Ali (contributor) - 2008

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How and How Far to Liberalize a Developing Economy with Informal Sector and Factor Market Distortions

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2003

with informal sectors. Welfare implications of three liberalization policies: inflow of foreign capital, tariff reduction … a Harris-Todaro framework with an urban informal sector and capital market distortion. We have shown that welfare … measures may produce counterproductive result on welfare of the relevant country …

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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor

Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - 2015

Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a four-sector general equilibrium framework with...

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