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Informality, Education-Occupation Mismatch, and Wages: Evidence from India

Bahl, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2023

This article examines the intertwining relationship between informality and education-occupation mismatch (EOM) and the … consequent impact on the workers' wages. In particular, we discuss two issues - first, the relative importance of informality and … analysis reveals that although both informality and EOM are significant determinants of wages, the former is more crucial for a …

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Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor

Chakraborty, Pavel; Singh, Rahul; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022

Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports increases the share of formal manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share...

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Structural change(s) in Ghana: A comparison between the trade, formal and informal sectors

Caldarola, Bernardo - 2022

This paper uses the case of Ghana to unpack the role of the informal sector in the process of structural change. A structuralist view of structural change - framed as changes in the employment shares of different industries - is combined with the insight that countries strive to diversify...

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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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Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?

Flabbi, Luca; Tejada, Mauricio - 2023

literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as … equality between the two states, cautioning against aggregating them in a common "informality state." The parametric model …

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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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Do Public Sector Employment Reductions Promote Informality?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2023

Using information from all IMF conditionality programs from 1990 to 2018, we implement a dynamic Augmented Inverse Probability Weighting Regression Adjustment approach to examine the effects of programs, including public sector dismissals, on the size of the shadow economy. The estimated effect...

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From fields to factories: Special economic zones, foreign direct investment, and labour markets in Vietnam

Tafese, Tevin; Lay, Jann - 2023

Vietnam has integrated into global value chains through the establishment of special economic zones (SEZs). This paper examines the local labour-market impacts of this programme, building on a unique dataset of SEZs in combination with labour force survey (LFS) data. Using historical satellite...

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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 dilemma...

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Costs and benefits of trade shocks: Evidence from Chilean local labor markets

César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022

significant rise in labor informality in more exposed local markets, especially among young and unskilled workers. These groups …

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