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Economic Impacts of Professional Training in the Informal Sector : The Case of the Labor Force Training Program in Cote D'Ivoire
Verner, Dorte; Verner, Mette - 2006
This paper addresses the economic impact of the labor force training program (PAFPA) developed for the informal sector in Cote d'Ivoire. The data contain a subsample of the participants in the agricultural sector, tailoring sector, and the electronics sector and a comparable control group of...
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Regulation and Noncompliance : Magnitudes and Patterns for India's Factories Act
Chatterjee, Urmila - 2017
Noncompliance with regulations by enterprises is said to be rife in developing countries. Yet there is limited systematic evidence of the magnitude of noncompliance at the enterprise level. Making innovative use of two complementary data sources, this paper quantifies noncompliance for India's...
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Casting a Shadow : Productivity of Formal Firms and Informality
Amin, Mohammad - 2019
Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity … impact of competition from informal firms on the labor productivity of formal firms. The results show that on average, the … labor productivity of informal firms is about one-fourth that of formal firms. Moreover, the labor productivity of formal …
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Mexico : Human Capital Effects on Wages and Productivity
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2006
The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation, Informal Labor, and Firm Performance
Almeida, Rita - 2006
also decreases average wages, productivity, and investment. The results are robust to several specification changes, and to …
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Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
Giné, Xavier - 2005
In the 1980's the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more...
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Entry Regulation and Business Start-Ups : Evidence from Mexico
Kaplan, David S. - 2016
The authors estimate the effect on business start-ups of a program that significantly speeds up firm registration procedures. The program was implemented in Mexico in different municipalities at different dates. Authors estimates suggest that new start-ups increased by about 4 percent in...
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A Framework for Thinking About Enterprise Formalization Policies in Developing Countries
Kenyon, Thomas - 2016
What policies encourage firms to become formal? The standard approach emphasizes reducing the costs of compliance with government regulation. This is unlikely to be sufficient. Instead we need to understand compliance as a function not only of firm-level costs and benefits but also in terms of...
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Informality Trends and Cycles
Loayza, Norman - 2016
This paper studies the trends and cycles of informal employment. It first presents a theoretical model where the size of informal employment is determined by the relative costs and benefits of informality and the distribution of workers' skills. In the long run, informal employment varies with...
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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets : The Mexican Experience 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano - 2016
This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a large informal or unregulated sector, Mexico. It studies quarterly gross flows of workers over a 15-year period that includes two recoveries and recessions, including the...
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