Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

By M. Chen. 2007

872 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/06912a6383297ed60940a0cdb39d41a62d211ff9

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

Citations in the corpus

Toward a Theory of the Informal Economy (2011, background): “Economists focus primarily on the status of firms in their discussion of the informal economy; sociologists and many policy scholars such as Chen ( 2006 , p.”
Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work (2013, methodology): “More recently, an integrated approach has developed, combining elements of all three of these other approaches (Bacchetta et al., 2009; Chen, 2007; Fields, 2005).”
Building Inclusive Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: Challenges for IS Research (2009, background): “While neoclassical economists mainly blame labour market segregation and administrative entry barriers, structuralists emphasise multiple market failures in financial, educational and information markets as the main reasons (see Chen 2004 for a literature review).”
The Shadow Economy and Work in the Shadow: What Do We (Not) Know? (2012, background): “See e.g. Marcelli, Pastor and Joassart (1999), Marcelli (2004), Chen (2004), Williams and Windebank (1998, 2001a, b), Flaming, Hayolamak, and Jossart (2005), Alderslade, Talmage and Freeman (2006), Brück, HaistenDeNew and Zimmermann (2006).”
Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector (2017, background): “The informal economy has distinct gender characteristics: women generally outnumber men as a percentage of workers [17,94–96] and, on average, women earn lower wages than men [97].”
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability (2008, background): “On the persistence and even growth of informality in many countries, see Chen (2005).”
The puzzle of East and Southeast Asia's persistent smallholder (2016, background): “Related to this scholarship on precarious work is that which notes the way inwhich the informal sector has morphed into the informal economy (Chen, 2007; Chang, 2009 and 2011).”
INFORMALITY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY RESPONSES (2017, neutral): “Chen (2006) presents a useful decomposition of different types of activities in the informal sector which can be related to poverty outcomes.”
Shadow economies all over the world : new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007 (2010, background): “Marcelli, Pastor and Joassart (1999), Marcelli (2004), Chen (2004), Williams (2004a, b, 2005a, b, 2006), Williams and Windebank (1999, 2001a, b), Flaming, Haydamack, and Jossart (2005) and Alderslade, Talmage and Freeman (2006), and Brueck, Haisten-DeNew and Zimmermann (2006).”
Lurking in the cities: Urbanization and the informal economy (2013, background): “According to the structuralist view, the formal enterprises interlink their activities to the informal sector for the aim of cost reduction and increasing labor flexibility (Castells and Portes, 1989; Chen, 2006; Carr and Chen, 2002).”
Informal Work in Latin America: Competing Perspectives and Recent Debates (2009, background): “As a consequence, the definition of informality has shifted from the simplistic notion of firm size to consider the social relations within which work is done (Chen 2007; Williams and Round 2007).”
Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy in South Africa (2006, background): “Notwithstanding these contradictory positions, Chen (2004) highlights three important issues that emerge from the empirical literature.”