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Impact of rural employment guarantee schemes on seasonal labor markets : optimum compensation and workers' welfare

Basu, Arnab K. - 2011

examine labor and output market responses to a productive rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and determine the optimal …

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Slavery, education, and inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010

slave states. -- slavery ; development ; inequality ; institutions ; education …

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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Origins and implications of family structure across Italian provinces in historical perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016

In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...

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Who are the microenterprise owners? : evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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Does it pay firms to register for taxes? : The impact of formality on firm profitability

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...

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Tax evasion, minimum wage non-compliance and informality

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal workforce. Our approach allows us to examine (i) the...

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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...

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Contractual dualism, market power and informality

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011

representations are not compatible with each other. We develop a search-theoretic model of contractual dualism in the labor market … where the inability to commit to contracts in the informal sector leads to employer market power in equilibrium, while an … enforced minimum wage in the formal sector provides employers with a commitment technology but which reduces their market power …

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A helping hand or the long arm of the law? : experimental evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms

Andrade, Gustavo Henrique de; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, … - 2013

results show most informal firms won't formalize unless forced to do so, suggesting formality offers little private benefit to …

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