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

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 …

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

capital constraint. Informality on the other hand lowers relative consumption volatility by weakening the working capital …

to operate in the informal sector. I use cross-country data on taxes, measures of informality, and measures of regulation … similar decomposition to that of Hall and Jones (1999), I find that distortions associated with informality account for a …

This paper analyzes how the informality responds to the quality of the labor enforcement and the bundle of benefits … that the formal workers receive in different countries of Latin America. Countries with different levels of informality … constraint, a representative firm chooses the share of workers in formality and informality that they want to hire, and the …

, factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the question of formalisation as a solution for firms’ growth. Looking …