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...

Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002 This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a large unregulated of “informal” sector. It confirms the relevance of the recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developing country context, and offe...

background: informal payments in the health sector of many developing countries are considered as a major impediment to health care reforms. informal payments are a form of systemic fraud and have adverse effects on the performance of the health system. in this study, the frequency and extent of informal payments as well as the determinants of these payments were investigated in general hospita...

2011 This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2012 report. It was presented at a Meeting of experts on " Expanding opportunities for the marginalized through skills development " organized by the GMR and BMZ in Bonn, Germany (3-4 November 2010). The paper has not been edited by the team. The views and opini...

1 The survey units An informal sector survey is concerned with economic units of special types namely householdbased and other small-scale establishments. Exactly what type of units are in the scope of the survey is a substantive issue, dependent on circumstances and data requirements, and is not considered here. However, certain common features can be noted. Typically, the survey is confined t...

This paper presents a search and matching model to account for the most salient facts of labor markets with informal jobs in developing countries. The data suggests that workers reallocate from formal jobs into informal jobs in recessions, as well as when policy makers intervene in the market. This reallocation is mainly driven by the large and procyclical swings of the job …nding rate in the f...

Workers in the Indian informal sector are engaged with different occupations. These occupations involve varied work related hazards. These occupational hazards are a consequent risk to health. The study aimed to determine occupational health scenario in the Indian Informal sector. One thousand eleven hundred twenty two workers from five different occupations namely weaving (handloom and power l...