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Financing the extension of social insurance to informal economy workers : The role of remittances

Kolev, Alexandre - 2021

Informal employment, defined through the lack of employment-based social protection, constitutes the bulk of employment in developing countries, and entails a level of vulnerability to poverty and other risks that are borne by all who are dependent on informal work income. Results from the Key...

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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel

Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which …

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Chapter 10 Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...

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Evaluating social protection programs in Tajikistan

Son, Hyun H. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 2, pp. 179-188

welfare policies still adhere to the methods and approaches of the Soviet period. This is true for social protection, which …

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Capital Tax, Minimum Wage, and Labor Market Outcomes

Kumar, Alok - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 1, pp. 133-154

outcomes and welfare cost. In the presence of a binding minimum wage, a decrease in the capital tax leads to an increase in … the welfare cost of capital tax. A policy change which involves an increase in the minimum wage and a fall in the capital … tax such that employment level remains constant increases welfare and output. (Copyright: Elsevier) …

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Foreign direct investment, environmentally sound technology and informal sector

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - In: Economic Modelling 31 (2013) C, pp. 206-213

The paper examines the linkages between foreign direct investment, informal sector and transfer of environmentally sound technology (EST) in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with an informal sector that produces a non-traded input for the...

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Sub-contracting and efficiency of the informal sector in India

Bairagya, Indrajit - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 2, pp. 341-361

Firms operating on production linkages through vertical integration with other firms are generally expected to possess a secured market for their output and better accessibility to inputs. We test the hypothesis whether or not the informal firms operating on contracts with formal...

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Does the informal sector thrive under democracy or autocracy? the case of Nepal

Solomon, Offiong Helen; Shrestha, Sibhaa - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 3, pp. 245-267

Our paper investigates the size and development of the informal sector in Nepal using aggregate data over the period 1991 to 2009. Our estimation using the Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model shows that the average size of the informal sector has been about 44%. Nepal has been...

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An empirical analysis of the informal sector in Ghana

Prosper Senyo Koto* - In: Journal of Developing Areas 49 (2015) 2, pp. 93-108

This paper examines the determinants of the decision of owners of small enterprises in Ghana to participate in the informal sector at start-up. For enterprises participating in the informal sector, the paper evaluates whether there are linkages with formal sector enterprises, and the...

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Misallocation, informality, and human capital: Understanding the role of institutions

D׳Erasmo, Pablo N.; Moscoso Boedo, Hernan J.; Şenkal, … - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 42 (2014) C, pp. 122-142

The aim of this paper is to quantify the role of formal-sector institutions in shaping the demand for human capital and the level of informality. We propose a firm dynamics model where firms face capital market imperfections and costs of operating in the formal sector. Formal firms have a larger...

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