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It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...
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We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of … licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by … discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence fee, bureaucratic delay creates a strategic opportunity, which can result …
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We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of … licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by … discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence fee, bureaucratic delay creates a strategic opportunity, which can result …
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be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable …. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored the strategic reactions of incumbent firms when threatened by the … possibility of entry. However, following De Soto (1989), there has been increasing emphasis on regulatory and institutional …
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be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable …. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored the strategic reactions of incumbent firms when threatened by the … possibility of entry. However, following De Soto (1989), there has been increasing emphasis on regulatory and institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566382
In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after the birth of the first child. We focus on the effects of pre-marital job characteristics and find that...
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The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
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This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
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This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in...
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In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal sector, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, can have important spillover effects on the informal sector. The relative sizes of the informal and...
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