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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Social Science Research Network, 2021 We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector.
Gabriel Ulyssea +3 more
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Spatial integration of urban informality in Jakarta
ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2022 Urban informality is an everyday life phenomenon in Jakarta but has not been extensively discussed, especially in relation to spatial design practice. This is important because formality and informality are not entirely separate but rather interconnected
Ruth Dea Juwita +1 more
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International Politics, 2022 As one of the more successful regional organisations in the world, ASEAN has been the driver of regional institution building in the Indo-Pacific. The key features in the ASEAN-led institutions are the informality of these arrangements and the stamp of ...
Mely Caballero-Anthony
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Informality: Causes and Consequences for Development
Annual Review of Economics, 2020 This article reviews the economic literature on informality, its causes, and its consequences for development. It covers a comprehensive body of research that ranges from well-identified experimental studies to equilibrium macro models, and which more ...
Gabriel Ulyssea
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What is informality? (Mapping) “the art of bypassing the state” in Eurasian spaces - and beyond
Eurasian geography and economics, 2021 Despite a growing number of studies featuring “informality” in their title, including many from the post-socialist region, little has been done to reach a consensus on what informality means, how to measure it and, more generally, to develop it into a ...
A. Polese
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Ghana’s informal economic sector in the face of a pandemic
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2021 Africa has not been spared the socioeconomic effects of Covid-19. But with a different socioeconomic setup where informality takes the center stage, the effects of the pandemic in Africa is like no other continent. The neo-liberal approach to informality
Philipa Birago Akuoko +2 more
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Informal Economy and Income Distribution in Ecuador During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Revista Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, 2022 This paper seeks to analyze the evolution of labor informality in Ecuador during the coronavirus. The analysis uses microdata from household surveys for 2019 and 2020 to contrast the evolution of informality rate and income. A wage decomposition
Hector Alberto Botello Peñaloza +1 more
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Urban Informality: Its Genesis and Future beyond Stigma and Abolition
AMJAU, African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2021 More than often informality as a concept connotes, in the common perception, with negative and unofficial ways through which formality is bypassed.
Safiya El Ghmari, Adil Zabadi
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Informality in the time of COVID-19 in Latin America: Implications and policy options
PLoS ONE, 2021 This paper analyzes the dynamics of the labor market in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic. After a decade of a virtuous circle of growth with the creation of formal jobs, the pandemic has had an considerable impact on the region’s labor market ...
I. Acevedo +3 more
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Informality, Consumption Taxes, and Redistribution
Social Science Research Network, 2020 Can consumption taxes reduce inequality in developing countries? This paper combines household expenditure data from 31 countries with theory to shed new light on the redistributive potential and optimal design of consumption taxes.
Pierre Bachas +2 more
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