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Labour standards application in the informal economy of Ghana: The patterns and pressures [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2013 In spite of the rapid growth and importance of informal employment in Ghana, few studies have investigated the extent of coverage of labour standards application, as a form of labour market regulation.
Akorsu Angela D.
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Tax rates, governance, and the informal economy in high-income countries [PDF]
, 2007 This paper studies the mechanisms behind the informal economy in high-income countries. About 16.3% of output in high-income OECD countries was produced informally in 2001-02.
Kuehn, Zoë
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Determinants of the Informal Economy in EU Countries [PDF]
Romanian Economic Journal, 2020 The purpose of the paper is to explore determinants of informal economy for EU countries’ economies which contributes to the current literature. The authors used a dynamic panel Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) technique.
Ozan Gülhan, Alban Hetemi, Egzon Osmani
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The Impact of Informal Economy in the Development of SMEs - Evidence from Kosovo (2008-2012) [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2017 This paper discusses the relationship between the informal economy and the development of SMEs in Kosovo. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the informal economy, its causes, effects and its impact on business, as well as government policies to ...
Nagip Skenderi +2 more
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Lifting of International Sanctions and the Shadow Economy in Iran—A View from Outer Space
Remote Sensing, 2021 With the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2016, Iran experienced a short period without international sanctions which resulted in an annual increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) in the following two years ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Sven Fischer
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, 2008 The informal economy comprises the parts of the economy that are not regulated. These parts include illicit activity like the sale of drugs, architects doing work under the table, hairdressers who operate in cash and don’t report their income, businesses
Berardi, Chris
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The informal economy in Ecuador
Innova Research Journal, 2018 This paper will analyse the effects of the economic changes that Correa’s government introduced on Ecuadorian policies, mainly focussing on the consequence that this policy had on the informal sector and unemployment.
Santiago Francisco Carranco Paredes
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No. 68: Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique [PDF]
, 2015 While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality.
Chikanda, Abel +2 more
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Polish Households' Behavior in the Regular and Informal Economies [PDF]
The paper analyzes characteristics of the informal economy in Poland in the context of transition using a specific survey carried out in the frame of the classic Labor Force Survey 1995 by the Polish National Statistical office (GUS).
Christophe Starzec, François Gardes
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Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment [PDF]
This paper explores the relationship of the informal economy to the formal economy and the formal regulatory environment. It begins with a discussion of the concept of the informal economy and its size, composition, and segmentation.
Martha Alter Chen
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