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Being on the frontline? Immigrant workers in Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

women are exposed to higher risk of unemployment than native men and that women are losing jobs at higher rates than equally …

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...

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Entrepreneurs of emotions: Evidence from street vending in India

Jain, Ronak - 2024

Street vending is an important source of self-employment for the urban poor. I combine observational, survey, and experimental data from Delhi to study this market. Partnering with vendors to randomize prices and passersby they solicit, I find that even with identical goods, child vendors are...

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Kalman Filter Estimation of the Unrecorded Economy in Macedonia

Jovanovic, Branimir - 2015

This paper estimates the unrecorded economic activity and employment in Macedonia during 1998-2013. We model the unrecorded economic activity as an unobserved process that depends on tax "burden", business regulations and quality of governance, and affects cash in circulation, foreign currency...

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Waiting for jobs

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2017

the severity of India's jobs crisis. However, it needs to be noted that simply creating a large number of jobs in the face … of intensifying demographic pressures is inadequate. These jobs need to be "productive jobs". …

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Understanding informality

Elgin, Ceyhun; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Yu, Shu - 2021

This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it includes both model-based and survey-based measures of informality and covers more than 160 economies for the period 1990-2018....

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Growing apart or moving together? Synchronization of informal and formal economy cycles

Elgin, Ceyhun; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Yu, Shu - 2021

We study the degree of synchronization between formal- and informal-economy business cycles. Using a comprehensive database of informal activity that covers a wide range of informality measures from almost 160 countries over the 1990-2018 period, we report two major results. First, fluctuations...

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Economic transition, dualism, and informality in India

Kesar, Surbhi - 2019

In much of the literature on economic development, sustained economic growth is expected to be accompanied by several interrelated processes of structure change, which involve a shift in economic activities from "traditional"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such...

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Strategy for financial inclusion of informal economy workers

Sharma, Seema; Bose, Arnab; Shekhar, Himanshu; … - 2019

outcomes. Informality of jobs with non-regular un-recorded income becomes the biggest challenge for financial institutions to … provide these services to a large section of the society. The informality of jobs may take various shapes and forms. Through …

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Investing in care: A strategy for effective and equitable job creation

Antonopoulos, Rania; Kim, Kijong; Masterson, Tom; … - 2010

construction and energy. Our microsimulation results suggest that investing in the care sector creates more jobs in total, at … double the rate of infrastructure investment. The second finding is that these jobs are more effective in reaching … recalibration to allow funds to be channeled into sectors that deliver jobs both more efficiently and more equitably. …

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