Architectures of informality

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare

Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, product demand and various parameter values. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which informality is prohibited. With relatively high product dem...

Informality in Africa: A Review

The global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Working Papers feature research that makes either an empirical or theoretical contribution to existing knowledge about the informal economy especially the working poor, their living and work environments and/or their organizations. Particular attention is paid to policy-relevant research i...

Formalism and Informality in RE

Requirements Engineering lies at the meeting place between the formal and the informal in software development. Computer programs are effectively formal constructs, admitting treatment by mathematical methods based on type theory, preconditions and postconditions, and invariants. But the world of human beings and physical objects in which the requirements are located is informal, and can not be...

Returns to Capital and Informality

In this paper we analyze the pattern of returns to capital in formal and informal manufacturing sector in Ethiopia using a rich panel dataset of formal sector manufacturing firms for the period 1996-2006 and two rounds of repeated cross-sectional data from the urban informal sector firms. Returns to capital in the informal sector are higher than that of the formal sector potentially explaining ...