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Payment compliance of informal sector workers in Indonesia National Health Insurance: a study on ability and willingness to pay. [PDF]
Health Econ RevHidayat MS +9 more
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What Sustains Informality? A Study of the Interactions between Formal and Informal Sector Firms
WIDER Working Paper, 2021 This paper considers two vertical links between informal and formal sector firms and studies their implications. First, we model a situation where final products produced by the formal and informal sector firms are differentiated in terms of quality and ...
Ajit Mishra
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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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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.
Áureo de Paula, José Scheinkman
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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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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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INFORMAL SECTOR MISALLOCATION [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016 A quantitative framework of firm dynamics is developed where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial constraints and the burden of taxation. Improving access to credit for formal sector firms increases aggregate total factor productivity and output while reducing the size of the informal sector.
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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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The Informal Sector and Economic Growth of South Africa and Nigeria: A Comparative Systematic Review
, 2020 The informal sector is an integral part of several sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and plays a key role in the economic growth of these countries.
Ernest Etim, O. Daramola
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global multidimensional crisis, one of its impacts being the crisis on the informal economy. This paper presents a review of the effects of this pandemic on the informal economy, coupled with empirical evidence based on
A. J. Pitoyo, B. Aditya, Ikhwan Amri
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