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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, Gertrude, Gosu Selase, Sunday, Agbede Philip   +2 more
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The formalization of the Egyptian informal sector: a behavioral and experimental approach [PDF]

Review of Economics and Political Science
Purpose – 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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Informal Sector Self-Employed Workers’ Old Age Pension Scheme in Retail Sector in Zimbabwe

Journal of Social Development Studies
The high incidence of informality in Zimbabwe implies that a large proportion of the adult population does not have access to contributory pension schemes during their working lives, rendering them ineligible for old-age pensions.
Albert Makochekanwa, Cheure Cheure, Moses Chundu, Elisha Mavodyo   +3 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 , Marzye Rostaminya, Touraj Harati Khalilabad, Sara Maleki, Seyed Abdolreza Mosavi   +4 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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The Search and Matching Equilibrium in an Economy with an Informal Sector: A Positive Analysis of Labour Market Policies

Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2015
This paper contributes to the theoretical analysis of the informal sector through the search and matching framework. Building upon the work of Albrecht, Navarro and Vroman (2009), where the informal sector consists of unregulated selfemployment, I ...
Luz Adriana Flórez
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Social norm, the informal sector and unemployment [PDF]

Finanzarchiv, 2002
While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions on the labour market and a social norm. Conducting informal work, or employing a worker infor- mally, is associated with expected punishment fees and payments of a ...
Kolm, Ann-Sofie, Larsen, Birthe
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Problems of Working Women in the Rural Informal Sector of Punjab (Pakistan)

Lahore Journal of Economics
The informal sector plays a significant role in Pakistan’s economy as well as in other developing countries. The role of the informal sector in solving the unemployment problem of Third World countries has become the focus of a conceptual and empirical ...
Karamat Ali, Abdul Hamid
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Labour income inequality and the informal sector in Colombian cities

Cuadernos de Economía, 2017
Labour markets in developing countries are crucial to determine income inequality. In this paper, we use a panel data approach to study the effect of the informal sector on labour income inequality for thirteen cities in Colombia from 2002-2015.
John Ariza, Gabriel Montes-Rojas
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INFORMALITY SECTORAL SELECTION AND EARNINGS IN URUGUAY [PDF]

Estudios Económicos, 2007
Se identifica al trabajador informal como aquel que no contribuye al sistema de seguridad social. Se analiza la probabilidad de ser informal y se estima el diferencial de remuneraciones entre sectores, utilizando estimaciones MCO y un modelo de regresiones intercambiables.
Marisa Bucheli, Rodrigo Ceni
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