Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement
نویسنده
چکیده
It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity.
منابع مشابه
Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality IZA DP No .
Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it attractive to be a formal employee. We show that, in locations with frequent inspections workers pay for mandated benefits by receiving lower wages. Wage rigid...
متن کاملGovernment Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors
The aim of this paper is to quantitatively investigate the interaction between the firms’ choice to operate in the formal or the informal sector and the government policy on taxation and enforcement. Informality is here defined as unregistered firms in legal activities. I develop quantitative theory, in general equilibrium, using the main determinants of informality: taxes, enforcement, regulat...
متن کاملEconomic modernization in the 20th century involved, as one of its core elements, formalization—the control of private economic activity through rules and regulations
This article undertakes an analysis of internationally comparable data to examine the relationship between state regulation and the informal economy at the macro level across a broad set of countries. The findings shed light on the question of why economic informality is more prevalent in some nations than others. The author shows that the regulatory environments within which economic activitie...
متن کاملThe Efficiency-Equity Trade-off of Labor Market Regulations: Evidence from Brazilian Cities. PRELIMINARY. PLEASE DO NOT CITE
This paper investigates whether labor market regulations involve a trade-off between efficiency and equity. We use city level data on efficiency and equity outcomes, and we explore the regional variation in the enforcement of labor regulation across 5,513 Brazilian cities. Although not all of the variation in enforcement can be considered exogenous, we control for pre determined regional charac...
متن کاملInformal Sector, Productivity and Tax Collection∗
The informal sector is a prominent characteristic of many developing countries. Most of the literature has focused on understanding the determinants of informality. The connection between the informal sector and economic development is, nonetheless, relatively less understood. One of the most important determinants of informality is the tax enforcement quality of a country which, some authors a...
متن کامل