Income Distribution and the Size of the Informal Sector [PDF]
This paper studies the role of income distribution as a determinant of the size of the informal sector in an economy by relying on a channel whereby inequality affects the behaviour of aggregate demand and thus influences the incentives a firm has to ...
Diego Winkelried
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Book Review: Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of International Development
Africa Spectrum, 2021 Aishwarya Bhuta
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Educación, Experiencia e Ingresos en el Sector Informal en Colombia
Medicina, 2004 <h3>Introducción</h3><p>La teoría del capital humano muestra los ingresos de un trabajador como un retorno a los conocimientos adquiridos a través de los años de escolaridad y de experiencia laboral. Con los primeros trabajos de Becker (
Augusto Peñaranda Sanjuán
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Social Policy Gaps and the Welfare Burden of Informal Sector Workers in Nigeria
Pan-African Journal of Education and Social SciencesThe informal economy has consistently contributed to social and economic development through income and job creation, thereby enhancing people’s well-being. This paper examines the implications of existing policy gaps in Nigeria’s informal sector and how
Adebukola Dagunduro, Joseph Jiboku
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The Urban Informal Sector in an Adjusting Economy: The Case of Pakistan [PDF]
The concept of the informal sector has gained popularity since the well-known study by International Labour Organisation [ILO] in 1972 Kenya. Since then it has become a centre stage in policy discussion regarding unemployment and poverty alleviation ...
Muhammad Arif Sargana
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The formalization of the Egyptian informal sector: a behavioral and experimental approach [PDF]
Review of Economics and Political SciencePurpose – This paper aims at assessing the impact of a number of behavioral interventions on the willingness of informal businesses, in the Egyptian informal sector, to join the formal sector. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses an experimental
Rania Moaaz, Sarah Mansour
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The Lighthouse Effect and Beyond [PDF]
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after a minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far explained as a byproduct of a signal (a lighthouse) conveyed by
Marta Ribeiro +2 more
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The impact of Formal and Informal Employment of women on their Quality of Life: a study in Tehran [PDF]
پژوهشهای سلامتمحور, 2018 Background & Objectives: Women have a basic role in ensuring the health of future generations and their employment forms an important part of their life.
Abolghasem Pourreza +4 more
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Social Protection in the Informal Sector; Evidence from Ghana’s Informal Sector
Journal of Economics, Management and Trade, 2019 Ghana’s economy is dominated by a large informal sector employing a significantly higher proportion of the total workforce. Studies have shown that majority of informal sector workers work under bad working conditions, and earn low remuneration culminating into high social insecurity especially during their old age.
Donne, Muddey Komla +2 more
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The effect of fiscal policy on the size of the informal sector in Nigeria
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2011 This paper adapts a dynamic real business cycle model to examine the effect of fiscal policy on the relative size of the informal sector in Nigeria. The motivation for this paper is to provide an economic intuition on how fiscal policy has contributed to
Offiong H. Solomon
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