Informality: Exit and Exclusion

By Guillermo E. Perry, William F. Maloney, O. Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, A. Mason, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduví, Mariano Bosch. 2007

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Informal Entrepreneurship and Industry Conditions (2016, background): “Informality represents an alternative for entrepreneurs excluded from formal employment options due to the costs at least in part imposed by formal institutions (Perry et al., 2007).”
Research on entrepreneurship in the informal economy: Framing a research agenda (2013, background): “Being excluded fromopportunities in the formal economy creates the possibility that informal entrepreneurs will exploit employees as cheaper labor (Perry et al., 2007).”
Informal Cross-Border Trade and Trade Facilitation Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009, background): “Perry et al. (2007) in fact find that in Latin America and the Caribbean region, the size of the firm but also the degree of firm productivity, the quality of public institutions, the extent of linkages to large companies and the use of third party contract enforcement are negatively correlated with”
Labor Market Regulations: What Do We Know About Their Impacts in Developing Countries? (2014, neutral): “Perry et al. (2007, 121) conclude from the regional and country-level studies in Heckman and Page´s (2004) that “a credible case can be built that labor legislation had a substantial impact on the size of the formal sector”.”
Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, neutral): “Good summaries of this literature are provided by Leontaridi (1998), Perry et al. (2007), and Ruffer and Knight (2007), among others.”
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? (2014, background): “25 Among others, see Perry et al. (2007), Banerjee and Duflo (2007), Banerjee and Duflo (2008).”
Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis (2013, neutral): “For example, Jarrell and Stanley (1990) and Stanley and Jarrell (1998) examined the magnitude of wage gaps between union-nonunion and male-female workers, respectively, using multiple studies that estimated the gap.”
Deconstructing the BRICs: Structural Transformation and Aggregate Productivity Growth (2012, background): “does not have a signed labor card (Perry et al., 2007).”
Closing the Credit Gap for Formal and Informal Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (2013, neutral): “Registered firms have better access to technology and human capital, and by complying with the law the firm has better business predictability, and may avoid situations where paying fines or bribes is the norm to stay in business (Perry et al., 2007; and Alcazar et al., 2008).”
The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa: Firm Size, Productivity, and Institutions (2012, background): “Th e groundbreaking study of the informal sector in Latin America (Perry et al. 2007) does not include any discussion of large informal fi rms, although it does note that some large formal fi rms underreport sales or employees.”
Informal employment: Two contested policy issues (2008, background): “Formal labour regulations and informal employment The World Bank’s Informality: Exit and Exclusion (Perry et al., 2007), though focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, contains a fairly comprehensive 14 For a useful discussion of the elusive nature of choice regarding women’s part-time…”