We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...

The paper attempts to find out the relationship between informal wage and innovative efforts of firms in the formal sector in countries such as India, where informal sector captures lion's share of total workforce. A firm employs both formal and informal workers to produce a good. In equilibrium...