Is Social Assistance Contributing to Higher Informality in Turkey? [PDF]
Although still low for European standards, investments in Social Assistance (SA) transfers in Turkey have been increasing in recent years. The government is expanding access to subsidized health for individuals in the informal sector through a rapid ...
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. +2 more
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The Effect of Unobservables on Labour Supply Decisions: The formal and informal sector during transition [PDF]
The transition from a command economy in the FSU resulted in increased activities in the informal sector. However despite prevalent delays in wage payments many workers were still observed to be working full-time in the formal sector.
Ceema Zahra Namazie
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Potential demand for National Health Insurance in Zimbabwe: Evidence from selected urban informal sector clusters in Harare. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Chipunza T, Nhamo S.
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GOOD AND BAD EQUILIBRIA WITH THE INFORMAL SECTOR [PDF]
We examine whether an economy can have a bad (small or no formal sector, high taxes) as well as a good (small or no informal sector, low taxes) equilibrium.
Bouwe Dijkstra
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COVID-19, food coping strategies and households resilience: the case of informal sector in Burkina Faso. [PDF]
Food Secur, 2023 Sawadogo N, Ouoba Y.
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Private Sector and Labour Market Developments in Albania: Formal versus Informal [PDF]
This paper examines the structure of the formal and informal sectors in Albania. The paper outlines the size and development of the formal private sector in Albania, and assesses the obstacles faced by businesses, especially in the SME sector, and how ...
Erjon Luçi +3 more
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State Earned Income Tax Credits and Participation in Regular and Informal Work [PDF]
I use variation in state EITCs between 1997-2005 to identify changes in informal and regular labor supply by unmarried men and women with children. Men’s participation in the informal sector declines by 6 percentage points if a state EITC increases by 10%
Samara Potter Gunter
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Segmentation and mobility of women in Argentine labor markets
Económica, 2013 This paper examines women‟s labor mobility in Argentina in 1995-2003 across 4 sectors: formal, informal, unemployment, and inactivity. We incorporate alternative measures of labor mobility, and estimate a multinomial logit model of sector choice.
María del Pilar Casal +1 more
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Encuentro, 1998 Detrás de su aparente heterogeneidad, las distintas teorías sobre el sector y la empresa informal tienen en común importantes presupuestos epistemológicos y metodológicos. Esto se debe a que todos los teóricos de la informalidad han ido a llenar sus cántaros conceptuales a una misma y única fuente: la noción de informalidad propuesta originalmente por ...
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Foreign Capital Inflow, Skilled-Unskilled Wage Gap, and Welfare in the Presence of the Informal Sector [PDF]
This paper attempts to analyse the impact of trade liberalisation on the skilled- unskilled wage gap and the level of welfare of developing countries, which are generally characterised by large “informal” labour markets.
Kausik Gupta, Tania Basu
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