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Informality Revisited

Informality Revisited,10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.01.008,World Development,William F. Maloney

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The paper draws on recent evidence––economic, sociological and anthropological––from Latin America to forward a view of the informal sector in developing countries primarily as an unregulated microentrepreneurial sector and not as a disadvantaged residual of segmented labor markets. It offers alternative explanations for many of the characteristics of the sector customarily regarded as evidence of its inferiority.

Journal: World Development - WORLD DEVELOP , vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1159-1178, 2004

DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.01.008

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- ...² For a comprehensive review, challenging the Harris–Todaro model, see Maloney (2004)...
Melanie Khamis. Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the...
- ...formal‐informal labor markets in less developed countries and the nature of self-employment in such contexts (Harris and Todaro 1970; Blau 1985; Maloney 2004; Fields 2005 ;G unther and Launov 2006; Tamvada 2010)...
Alex CoadJaganaddha, et al. Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India
- ...It is estimated that between 30 and 70% of the urban workers in Latin America work informally (Maloney 2004)...
Gregorio Perez Arrau, et al. Managing human resources in the Latin American context: the case of Ch...
- ...Using available household surveys for Latin America, recent studies have argued that a large share of workers are ‘opting out’ of the formal sector voluntarily (Chaudhuri & Mukhopadhyay, 2010; Maloney, 1999, 2004; Packard, 2007; Perry et al, 2007)...
Danielle L. Rodin, et al. Determinants of informal employment among working mothers in Mexico
- ...But while there are some studies that examine micro and small firm dynamics in developing countries (Liedholm et al, 1994; Mead and Liedholm, 1998; Maloney, 2004; Deininger et al, 2007) and several that examine the transition from wage to self-employment in middle-income and developed countries (Carrasco, 1999; Fairlie, 1999; Bruce, 2000; Dunn and Holtz-Eakin, 2000; Mandelman and Montes-Rojas, 2009), studies of the household-level dynamics of RNFE participation in developing countries remain rare...
Sosina Bezu, et al. Employment Dynamics in the Rural Nonfarm Sector in Ethiopia: Do the Po...

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Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments (Citations: 1)

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