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The dual labour market theory and the informal sector in South Africa
Acta Commercii, 2006 Purpose of the paper: The purpose of this paper is to revisit the dual labour market theory as far as the informal sector in South Africa is concerned.
M. D. Uys, P. F. Blaauw
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Causes of Option for Informal Sector [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2020 Informality is a feature, specific to any economy, regardless its nature and development degree, but it has a significant share in developing or poorly developed economies.
Cristian MARINESCU, Alina BRATILOVEANU
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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.
Aureo de Paula +3 more
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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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Improving upon the working environment of informal sector workers in Ghana: The role of planning
Cogent Medicine, 2021 : The formalization of the informal sector in Ghana can never be achieved without planning the working environment of the informal sector workers. Although studies have touched on various aspects of the informal sector working environment, no review ...
Dina Adei +4 more
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Modelling the informal sector and energy consumption in Ghana
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022 The International Monetary Fund (2017) defines the informal sector as unrecorded economic activities that possess monetary value and contribute to tax revenue and gross domestic product.
John Bosco Dramani +2 more
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Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
Global Social Challenges Journal, 2023 This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-
Simon David +8 more
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Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2021 This study explores the exclusion of informal micro-enterprises from the provision of basic urban infrastructure services in Duncan Village in East London, South Africa.
B. Masuku, O. Nzewi
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PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 Obtaining medication from the informal sector is common in low- and middle- income countries. Informal sector use increases the risk for inappropriate medication use, including inappropriate antibiotic usage.
Sanne Wildbret +6 more
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Central Bank Review, 2016 This paper develops a model of sequential job search to understand the factors determining the effect of tax and enforcement policies on the size (i.e., employment share) of informal sector. The focus is on the role of informal sector as a stepping stone
Semih Tümen
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