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Trabalho precário e informalidade: desprecarizando suas relações conceituais e esquemas analíticos

Nogueira, Mauro Oddo; Carvalho, Sandro Sacchet de - 2021

of informality, leading us to take into consideration for the perfect understanding of the reality of the world of labor …

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Could Mexico become the new "China"? : policy drivers of competitiveness and productivity

Dougherty, Sean M.; Escobar, Octavio R. - 2016

sluggish productivity improvements, particularly to determine how labour informality may have contributed. The study takes …

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Tolerance of noncompliance : discretion rather than simple rules?

Forteza, Alvaro; Noboa, Cecilia - In: Estudios de economía 46 (2019) 1, pp. 31-59

We argue that societies sometimes choose not to enforce the law to gain “flexibility”. Especially developing countries face a dilemma between discretion and commitment to only partially-contingent rules. Rules are good for incentives, but discretion may be more “flexible”. We embed this...

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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries

Yassin, Shaimaa; Langot, François - 2017

This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...

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Money, inflation, and unemployment in the presence of informality

Lahcen, Mohammed Aït - 2017

This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … developing economies. I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with informality in both labor and goods markets and where … informality when considering the inflation-unemployment trade-off in the conduct of monetary policy. …

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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries

Langot, François; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2016

This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...

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Product Quality, Informality, and Child Labour

Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2011

This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors. The agrarian sector produces a homogeneous good and consists of informal firms employing adults and children. The modern sector produces a...

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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model

Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023

the level of informality. Results suggest the importance of tailored data set selection when modelling IE with MIMIC. …

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Domestic revenue mobilization and informality : challenges and opportunities for sub-Saharan Africa

Gwaindepi, Abel - 2022

and implicitly mistaken for lucrative tax bases. First, I critically interrogate current conceptualizations of informality … to highlight how the informality that materially affects revenue mobilization goes beyond the hitherto narrow focus on … the visible informal sectors. I then demonstrate that informality is only one among many factors negatively associated …

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

Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006

assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …

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