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Boats as housing in Oxford, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context
Galuszka, Jakub - In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 48 (2024) 1, pp. 126-144
informality in the global North and document the diverse trajectories that informal processes may take. My analysis reveals that …
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What traders know: the (mis)perceptions of formal and informal cross-border traders
Falco, Paolo; Wiseman, Eleanor - 2024
Cross-border traders face a choice between official and unofficial border crossings. The latter allow them to evade taxes, but expose them to other risks, such as bribes, fines, and arrest. We investigate the perceptions of cross-border traders about the risks of trading officially vs...
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Formality, informality, and social welfare
Bennett, John - 2008
. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which informality is prohibited. With relatively high product demand, the … effect of entrepreneurs being free to choose informality is that consumer surplus and total employment are reduced, but … also show that informality may be a built-in stabilizer or destabilizer. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268865
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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - 2006
assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293528
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The Sources of Wage Growth in a Developing Country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288189
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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006
assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688734
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Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare
Bennett, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which informality is prohibited. With relatively high product demand, the … effect of entrepreneurs being free to choose informality is that consumer surplus and total employment are reduced, but … also show that informality may be a built-in stabilizer or destabilizer. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761786
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Crescimento econômico e a distribuição da mão-de-obra entre os setores formal e informal do mercado de trabalho : teoria e evidência empírica para a economia brasileira
Rodarte, Thiago Luiz; Libânio, Gilberto de Assis - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2012
sector, what would contribute to growth, which in turn would cause formality (informality) to increase (decrease). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635885
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Post-socialist anomie through the lens of economic modernization and the formalization of social control
Swader, Christopher; Kosals, Leon - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
interpersonal relations and, on the other hand, (b) informality via the lower density of norms (also known as anomie). This work …, our multi-level regression models, using World Values Survey data, report that political formality (government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714135
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Formality and informality : learning in relationships in an organisation
Dessne, Karin - In: International journal of knowledge management : IJKM ; … 9 (2013) 4, pp. 17-32
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