Formal Employment, Informal Employment and Income Differentials in Urban China
Oaxaca’s study (1973), along with the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) questionnaire (2004 and 2006 pooling data), is used as the basis for this study in estimating the formal-informal employment hourly income differential, as well as the formal ...
Guifu, Chen, Shigeyuki, Hamori
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Un'Economia Sommersa: Documenting the Evolution of the Venetian Formal Economy
, 2009 The formal business sector of Venice, Italy has evolved drastically since 1920 from a residential-based economy to one devoted mainly to tourism. This project explored these changes and documented the current formal economy of Venice, focusing on retail ...
Shiotsu, Yoshitaka C. +3 more
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Informal-Formal Worker Wage Gap in Turkey: Evidence From A Semi-Parametric Approach [PDF]
Using individual level data from Turkstat Household Labor Force Survey for 2005-2009 period and a variety of parametric and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a wage gap ...
Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
, 2017 In developing countries, informal firms account for up to about half of all economic activity. Using data from World Bank firm-level surveys, we find that informal firms are small and extremely unproductive compared with even the small formal firms in ...
La Porta, Rafael, Shleifer, Andrei
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INFORMAL WAGE AND FORMAL SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY : THEORY AND EVIDENCES FROM INDIA
We express a doubt on the conventional wisdom namely, of a positive relationship between wage and productivity, of a formal sector firm in a developing economy where the firm can either go for subcontracting to the informal sector to minimize wage cost ...
Dibyendu Maiti, Sugata Marjit
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“Social Capital and Territorial Policies: The Case of South Italy”,
, 2013 The interest in the formal and the informal spans across many sociological disciplines. In organization sociology, it has been a staple topic since the dawn of the field, reflected in such themes as the limits of bureaucracy, formal/informal leadership ...
DE VIVO, PAOLA
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Informality, Frictions and Monetary Policy [PDF]
How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary policy? To answer this question we construct a two-sector, formal-informal new Keynesian closed-economy.
Paul Levine +3 more
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Resilience and Recovery in the Informal Economy: Social Networks, Social Protection, and Adaptive Strategies Among Post-COVID Workers in Bangladesh. [PDF]
Public Health ChallMamun MAA +4 more
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Blocking human potential: how formal policies block the informal economy in the Maputo corridor
, 2006 This paper deals with one of the most interesting cross-border micro-regions in Africa: the Maputo corridor. In the mid-1990s, the governments of South Africa and Mozambique agreed to reconstruct the Maputo corridor through the implementation of the ...
Söderbaum, Fredrik,
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Recent Breakthroughs in Cyclizations of <i>Ortho</i>-Quinone Methides. [PDF]
MoleculesWang D +5 more
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