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This paper makes a pioneering attempt to provide a theory of determination of interest rate in the informal credit market in a small open economy in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model. There are two informal sectors which obtain production
Gupta, Manash Ranjan +1 more
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Earnings Inequality and the Informal Economy: Evidence from Serbia [PDF]
We analyse the extent and evolution of informality and inequality in the Serbian labour market between 2002 and 2007, using data from the Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS). Two surprising results emerge.
Peter Sanfey, Gorana Krstić
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Research in GlobalizationThis research article reports an investigation of immigration effects on the probability of being part of the formal labor market in Ecuador, a developing South American economy.
Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez, Helen Correa
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Presence of Informal Labour Markets [PDF]
How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy? To answer this question we construct a two-sector, formal-informal new Keynesian closed-economy.
Levine, Paul +3 more
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BEYOND FORMALITY. The informalisation and tertiarisation of labour in the gig economy
, 2022 The debate on the platform gig economy is often focused on its disruptive characteristics within the new cognitive capitalism, disintermediating labour relations and challenging labour regulation and protection. On the contrary, in this chapter, we adopt a long-term perspective, based on historical capitalism, defined as a concrete time-space system of
Farinella D., Arcidiacono D.
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The Nigerian informal economy: a regional analysis
, 2014 In recent years, particularly post 1990 and contrary to the expectation and predictions of many economists, there is ample evidence that the informal economy has expanded globally (Schneider et al., 2010).
Igudia, EO
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Financial Development and the Underground Economy [PDF]
We provide a theoretical and empirical study of the relation between financial development and the size of the underground economy. In our theoretical framework agents allocate investment between a low-return technology which can be operated with ...
Tullio Jappelli, Salvatore Capasso
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, 2014 Electronic Thesis or DissertationWhy do managers in emerging markets conduct some activities in the informal economy and others in the formal economy when they have a choice?
Abi Aad, Amine A.
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The Shadow Economy and Shadow Economy Labor Force: What Do We (Not) Know? [PDF]
In this paper the main focus lies on the development and the size of the shadow economy and of undeclared work (or shadow economy labor force) in OECD, developing and transition countries.
Schneider, Friedrich
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