Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on the informal sector workers in Bangladesh. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Swarna NR +9 more
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Accounting for the Hidden Economy: Barriers to Legality and Legal Failures [PDF]
This paper examines how much of the difference in the size of the informal sector and in per capita income across countries can be accounted by regulation costs (barriers to legality) and contractual imperfections in financial markets (legal failures ...
António R. Antunes +1 more
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Impact of filtering face pieces (FFP3) respiratory protective mask usage on the respiratory functions of informal sector carpenters in Douala: a five-month before-after study. [PDF]
Pan Afr Med J, 2023 Bouland C, Ngoa JJE, Nebo J, Djiele JFN.
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Informal sector labour demand: Evidence from Zimbabwe’s urban informal metal sector
Botswana Journal of Economics, 2016 This paper investigates the major determinants of labour demand in Zimbabwe’s urban informal metal sector. Furthermore, the study looks at employment trends in the urban informal metal sector. The paper employs the ordinary least squares (OLS) technique and three stage least squares (3SLS) to take care of the endogeneity problem.
Zhou, Honest, Pindiriri, Carren
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The Costs and Benefits of Informality [PDF]
We explore the costs and benefits of informality associated with the informal sector lying outside the tax regime in a two-sector New Keynesian model.
Emanuela Lotti +2 more
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Poverty on the rise: The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the informal sector of Gweru, Zimbabwe. [PDF]
Int Soc Sci J, 2021 Dzawanda B, Matsa M, Nicolau M.
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Coordinated Tax-Tariff Reforms, Informality, and Welfare Distribution [PDF]
The paper studies the revenue, efficiency, and distributional implications of a simple strategy of offsetting tariff reductions with increases in destination-based consumption taxes so as to leave consumer prices unchanged.
Gerard C. van der Meijden +1 more
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Occupational Exposure and Health in the Informal Sector: Fish Smoking in Coastal Ghana. [PDF]
Environ Health Perspect, 2022 Weyant CL +5 more
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Gender and Informal Sector Analysis in India: Economy Wide Approaches [PDF]
The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social accounting ...
Khan, Haider, Sinha, Anushree
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COVID-19, financing and sales decline of informal sector MSMEs in Senegal. [PDF]
Afr Dev Rev, 2021 Koloma Y.
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