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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India: Evidence from Micro-Data

Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate …

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La Informalidad Laboral en América Latina : Explicación Estructuralista o Institucionalista? (Informal Labor in Latin-America: Structuralist or Institutionalist Explanation?)

Jiménez, Diana - 2013

This article analyzes the behavior of informality for a group of Latin American countries assuming a theoretical approach, which takes into account structural and institutional explanations, in an attempt to determine through an econometric exercise what explanation is more relevant....

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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance

Marjit, Sugata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We provide an analysis of enforcement policies in a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated strategies. We argue that firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do very little to increase TOTAL employment when faced...

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Public Governance and Corporate Fnance : Evidence from Corruption Cases

Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2017

also by country institutional factors. This study focuses on the roles of public governance in firm financing patterns. To … conduct a natural experiment that avoids endogeneity, we identify 23 corruption scandals involving high-level government … persist even if we only focus on the connected firms that were not directly involved in the corruption cases. The relative …

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Overcoming Cultures of Compliance to Reduce Corruption and Achieve Ethics in Government

Lager, James M. - 2010

Despite decades of failed anti-corruption efforts, most government organizations operate as if additional compliance …-based efforts will curb corruption. This article offers an explanation for why many of the government ethics rules imposed on public … instead the adoption of values-based ethics programs and practices to reduce corruption. (This abstract is not in the original …

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Corporate and public governances in transition: the limits of property rights and the significance of legal institutions

Nivet, Jean-Francois - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 1 (2004) 2, pp. 155-173

introduction of minimal laws and wait for their evolutionary development. The failure of corporate and public governance, notably …

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Institutions and Informal Livelihoods : A Case of Cycle Rickshaw Pullers in Delhi

Taparia, Shrikant - 2013

One of the distinguishing features of Indian development is the predominance of informal sector livelihoods which has grown over time and space. However, not much is yet known about the character and dynamics of such livelihoods. The present study as such aims to explore the institutional...

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Characteristics of India's Informal and Formal Trading with Nepal : A Comparative Analysis

Taneja, Nisha; Pohit, Sanjib - 2002

The large and vibrant informal trade between India and Nepal continues to thrive despite trade liberalization in the … two countries. This calls for an in-depth analysis of India's informal trade with Nepal. The analysis, carried out on the … basis of an extensive survey conducted in India and Nepal reveals that informal traders in India and Nepal have developed …

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Formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment in Indian manufacturing

Moreno-Monroy, Ana I.; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-17

subcontracting cannot explain the persistently high employment in traditional informal manufacturing activities in India. Instead …

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Formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment in Indian manufacturing

Moreno, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul Azeez - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-17

subcontracting cannot explain the persistently high employment in traditional informal manufacturing activities in India. Instead …

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