A competitive model of the informal sector

By Pedro S. Amaral, E. Quintin. 2006

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Government Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors (2011, background): “2 Choosing the parameters The parameters that need to be calibrated are: (1) productivity distribution parameters: zmin; k; (2) elasticity of substitution across goods, ; (3) regulation cost, ; and (4) labor supply, L.”
Can Informal Firms Hurt Registered SMEs’ Access to Credit? (2016, neutral): “Aside from reducing overall productivity (Amaral and Quintin (2006); Galiani and Weinschelbaum (2007); Perry, Maloney, Arias, Fajnzylber, Mason and Saavedra Chanduvi (2007); Albrecht, Navarro and Vroman (2009)) and hence economic growth, informal firms may have an undesirable impact particularly on”
Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort (2012, background): “are Maloney (2004), Fields (2005), Loayza and Rigolini (2006), Amaral and Quintin (2006) , Bennett and Estrin (2007) and Bennett (2008).”
Macro-level determinants of formal entrepreneurship versus informal entrepreneurship (2014, background): “…goals in the formal Please cite this article as: Thai, M.T.T., Turkina, E., Macro-level determinants of formal entrepreneurship versus informal entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.07.005 economy (Amaral and Quintin, 2006; Straub, 2005).”
Informal Employment and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Case of Mexico (2015, methodology): “Amaral and Quintin (2006) report data for Argentina, and in the Appendix we report evidence for Mexico from Busso et al. (2012) that points in the same direction.”
Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal (2014, methodology): “Stricter regulation is linked to slower growth, lessened productivity, inhibited investment and decreased employment (particularly in high-skilled jobs, according to Barseghyan (2008)).”
MODELING INFORMALITY FORMALLY: HOUSEHOLDS AND FIRMS (2012, neutral): “A significant departure from dualism is found in Amaral and Quintin (2006), who explicitly model the labor market as a competitive market. They assume that both workers and entrepreneurs are heterogeneous. As in the previous models, firms differ in managerial ability. Firms in the formal sector pay ”
Financial Intermediation and Economic Development: A Quantitative Assessment ⁄ (2007, neutral): “(1)See for example Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (1997), Prescott (1998), or Hall and Jones (1999). (2)See for example Goldsmith (1969), McKinnon (1973), Shaw (1973), or King and Levine (1993). Levine, Loayza, and Beck (2000) use GMM dynamic panel estimators to partially deal with the possibility of r”
Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “…lack access to finance from formal lenders, this may well influence firm performance because they scale down operations and the September, 2017 781 high cost of informal loans and limited financing available lead them to substitute (low skilled) labor for physical capital (Amaral & Quintin, 2006).”
Firms, Informality, and Development: Theory and Evidence from Brazil (2018, background): “(1997), Amaral and Quintin (2006), de Paula and Scheinkman (2010, 2011), and Galiani and Weinschelbaum (2012), among others.”