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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 This paper investigates the determinants of informal economic activity. We present two equilibrium models of informality and test their implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil. We define informality as tax avoidance; firms in the informal sector avoid tax payments but suffer other limitations.
Áureo de Paula, José Scheinkman
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A Theory of the Informal Sector [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 In many countries, especially poor countries, a heavy burden of taxes, fees, bureaucratic hassles, and bribes drives many producers into an informal sector. This paper shows that we can attribute the existence of a large informal sector to the fact that, because productive endowments contain important unobservable components, the state cannot adjust ...
Yoshiaki Azuma, Herschel I. Grossman
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Moral, the Informal Sector, and Unemployment [PDF]
, 2001 While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions, and heterogeneous workers in terms of moral. This facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in ...
Larsen, Birthe, Kolm, Ann-Sofie
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INFORMAL SECTOR MISALLOCATION [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016 A quantitative framework of firm dynamics is developed where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial constraints and the burden of taxation. Improving access to credit for formal sector firms increases aggregate total factor productivity and output while reducing the size of the informal sector.
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Granular Information and Sectoral Movements
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Jiang, Hao +2 more
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RIDE Revista Iberoamericana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Educativo, 2015 El objetivo de la presente propuesta es analizar la economía informal y cómo esta participa en la generación de autoempleo en la economía mexicana. Para ello se describen los conceptos del sector informal, la informalidad y la economía informal, y se analizan diferentes indicadores que permiten medir el fenómeno de estudio.
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Seeking Rent in the Informal Sector [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 ABSTRACTRent seeking within the vast informal segment of the developing world is a relatively under‐explored topic in the interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking and corruption within the informal segment gets affected by economic reforms targeted for the formal sector is rarely discussed in the literature ...
Kar, Saibal +3 more
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Reform, informal sector, and extortion [PDF]
Economics & Politics, 2017 AbstractInformal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra‐legal activities employs majority of the work force in the developing world. Such extra‐legal existence of informal production is facilitated through extortion by agents of political forces in power. Also, extortion activities themselves constitute an informal segment.
Biswajit Mandal +2 more
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Is Informal Sector Employment Marginal to Formal Sector Growth? [PDF]
The Pakistan Development Review, 2012 Pakistan has adopted a neoliberal regime to open the economy to global competition and reduce the role of the state. This directional change brought increased flow of overseas remittances, speculative investment, and consumerism. Consequently, the economy in mid-2000s grew but commodity-producing sector contracted. Public sector
Nadia Tahir, Pervez Tahir
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On Defining And Measuring The Informal Sector [PDF]
, 2006 A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality.
Henley, Andrew +2 more
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