The informal sector
Trade Union and the Informal Sector in Africa: Cameroon
... the informal sector is expanding rapidly, and is vast, heterogeneous in terms of activities and ...this sector are too oppressive, and often unsafe; incomes of unregulated wage earners and the ...
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Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of the Informal Sector in Guinea, West Africa
... this sector was first described in 1970s and in 1990s the International Labour Organization (ILO) expanded the description to include private unin- corporated ...the informal sector may be broadly ...
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On the Political Economy of the Informal Sector and Income Redistribution
... formal sector, they may choose to work in the informal sector simply because they would rather avoid being ...the informal sector acts as an alternative mechanism of redistribution is ...
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Informal sector, productivity, and tax collection
... the informal sector good or bad for development? Some authors have argued that firms operating in the informal sector are less regulated and less taxed than firms in the formal sector, ...
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Economic Liberalization and Informal Wage in a Small Open Economy: Does Capital Mobility count?
... by informal sectors in determining the pattern of employment in the developing ...formal sector labour force (ILO ...manufacturing sector and drive labour out into the informal segment of the ...
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Should informal sector be subsidised?
... the informal sector to combat unemployment, to enhance informal employment and to uplift country’s ...urban informal sector is ...urban informal sector are also globally ...
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Informal Sector and Employment in India
... formal sector by the State as compared to the informal ...that informal sector occupies a major part of our ...of informal sector. Since the informal sector has ...
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Informal Sector in India: A Review
... The informal sector is a manifestation of a distressed phenomenon especially in the urban ...Urban informal manufacturing growth is negatively related to the growth of formal manufacturing ...
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Reform, Informal Sector and Extortion
... the informal sector. The interface of contract theory and informal economy is analyzed in Quintin ...the informal sector has an inverse relation with contract enforcement in the formal ...
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Welfare implications of technological progress with segmented factor markets
... the informal sector at a higher relative interest rate. The informal producers do not have access to credit from formal institutions and therefore, have to depend on the informal credit ...
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Informal Sector and Employment Generation in Nigeria
... the informal Transport Sector in ...the informal sector is a source of employment for ...the informal sector if the government regulates its ...The Informal Sector ...
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Labor share, informal sector and development
... The predicted decline in labor share with development is consistent with the stylized facts highlighted in Section 2. The labor share sharply decreases over time since the mid 1980s in poor countries (lower- income and ...
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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso
... the informal sector in SSA lend support to the second strand above (House et al, 1993; Taylor, 1996; Rankin, Sandefur and Teal, ...formal sector (public and private) values education (Kuepie, Nordman ...
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Employment protection and income inequality: is there a role for the informal sector?
... the informal sector (see ...formal sector and the corresponding increase in demand in the informal sector affects both the wage dispersion and the employment in the formal sector ...
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The business of informal trading in the food sector in mafeteng urban
... the informal marketing of vegetables and ...1000 informal fruit and vegetable traders and the number increases daily (Mafeteng Urban Council, ...the Informal traders indicated that they go home ...
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Employment, Earnings and Social Protection for Female Workers in Vietnam’s Informal Sector
... the informal sector as well as to provide illustrative numbers for Vietnam's ...the informal sector activities from their formal counterpart, Le and Nguyen (1997) propose a long list of ...
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Endogenous Capital Market Imperfection, Informal Interest Rate Determination and International Factor mobility in a General Equilibrium Model
... an informal and a rural (agricultural). The informal sector produces a non-traded intermediate good for the formal sector while the other two sectors produce two internationally traded final ...
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International factor mobility, informal interest rate and capital market imperfection: a general equilibrium analysis
... formal sector and draw labour from the informal sectors resulting in an increase in the informal sector wage ...and informal interest rates should go down as the supply of capital rises ...
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Trade and Poverty Issues: A Country Case Study of the Philippines
... Despite growing urbanization, more than half (51%) of the Philippines' 100 million people live in rural areas. Despite its larger share of the total population, the rural economy (agriculture, hunting, forestry and ...
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Corruption and Informality: Complements or Substitutes? Qualitative Evidence from Barranquilla, Colombia
... The informal vendors were interviewed first, as their answers would probably leave open a lot of questions, which could later be clarified talking to ...the informal sector and corruption, and the ...
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