Search Results - subject:"formal and informal sectors"

Hofstede, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research

Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

However much we appreciate the enormous scientific contribution by Professor Ronald Inglehart, who initiated the international data collection of the World Values Survey, our re-analysis of the very World Values Survey data [“roll-outs” of the World Values Survey data...

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Produtividade do trabalho nos setores formal e informal no Brasil : uma avaliação do período recente

Squeff, Gabriel Coelho - 2015

In this paper we discuss the evolution of labor productivity in the formal, informal and other households units sectors disaggregated by economic activity. Based on a modified shift-share that deals with the loss of additivity problem, we found that aggregate productivity grew 7% between 2001...

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The geographic dimensions of institutions

Bhupatiraju S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

In this paper we examine the role of institutions relative to economic performance, absolute geography and financial performance of a country. In order to do this, we use the spatial principal component analysis and a spatial canonical correlation analysis to obtain multi-dimensional measure of...

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Mapping regional social enterprise ecosystems in India: Framework and indicators

Sonne L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

In this paper we briefly review social enterprise in the context of India before developing a conceptual framework highlighting the different components that make up a regional social enterprise ecosystem including entrepreneurs, financial and non-financial support, education and research,...

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An integrated model of formal and informal housing sectors

Heikkila, Eric; Lin, Michael - In: The Annals of Regional Science 52 (2014) 1, pp. 121-140

formal and informal sectors do not exist independently from one another, but are instead dual aspects of a single market … these sectors coexist in close proximity. This paper develops a model of urban land markets where both the formal and … informal sectors are endogenously and mutually determined. More specifically, the informal market arises as a kind of residual …

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What Determines Productivity in Senegal? Sectoral Disparities and the Dual Labor

Echevin, Damien; Murtin, Fabrice - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

Growth of the informal sector of the Senegalese economy may result in a productivity slowdown and could induce a surge in inequality and poverty. The production process is similar for some subsectors of the informal sector and those of the formal one. But there is evidence that the economy is...

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Rural Development, Environmental Sustainability, and Poverty Alleviation: A Critique of Current Paradigms

Mueller, Susanne D. - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2006

Policy General); O-180 (Economic Development: Regional Urban and Rural Analyses); O-170 (Formal and Informal Sectors … planning and policy, economic development, regional urban and rural analyses, formal and informal sectors, institutional …

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Institution of Stateâ€“Business Relation and Its Impact on Manufacturing Productivity Growth in India: A Post-reform Analysis

Kathuria, Vinish; Rajesh Raj S.N.; Sen, Kunal - In: South Asia Economic Journal 14 (2013) 1, pp. 83-108

Empirical studies on total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in developing countries highlight trade openness, research and development and market structure as being the most important determinants of TFPG. The role of institutions remains overlooked in the literature on the determinants of...

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Échange et développement

Thorbecke, Erik; Cornelisse, Peter - In: Revue d’économie du développement 21 (2013) 4, pp. 5-24

The purpose of this paper is to present a framework explaining why different types of transactions occur in different settings ? particularly in developing countries. The approach we propose is based on a new concept which we call ?exchange-configuration?. The latter consists of three building...

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Echange et développement

Thorbecke, Erik; Cornelisse, Peter A. - In: Revue d'économie du développement : revue trimestrielle 21 (2013) 4, pp. 5-24

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