Informality and Development

By R. La Porta, A. Shleifer. 2014

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics

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Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More? (2017, background): “In a cross-section of developing economies, La Porta and Shleifer (2008, 2014) disaggregate the self-employed into those running formal or informal firms and find that informal firms tend to be low-productivity businesses run by poorly educated owners, while formal firms tend to be…”
Institutions and Entrepreneurship Quality (2018, background): “La Porta and Shleifer (2014) argued that individuals are motivated to remain in the informal sector in order to avoid paying taxes.”
Can Informal Firms Hurt Registered SMEs’ Access to Credit? (2016, neutral): “While the parasite view considers informal firms as unfair competitors to registered SMEs because they evade taxes and regulations (Farrell, 2004; Levy, 2008); the dual view sees both types of firms as fundamentally different (Rauch, 1991; La Porta and Shleifer, 2014).”
Informality in the process of development and growth (2016, background): “…the size of the informal sector can account for a 3 significant portion of differences in output per capita between rich and poor countries (see La Porta and Shleifer, 2014; Mel, McKenzie and Woodruff, 2008; and Prado, 2011). developing countries, informality is widespread in the majority of…”
Africa’s Evolving Employment Trends (2018, background): “As countries transform their economies, the importance of self-employment in the labour market is likely to decline over time (La Porta & Shleifer, 2014; Yamada, 1996).”
Evaluating the relationship between marginalization and participation in undeclared work: lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina (2021, background): “In modernization theory, undeclared work is a leftover from a previous mode of production and prevails in marginal enclaves not yet subjected to modernization and economic development (La Porta and Shleifer 2008, 2014).”