Is informal normal? : towards more and better jobs in developing countries

By J. Jütting, J. Laiglesia. 2009

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Evidence of the invisible: toward a credibility revolution in the empirical analysis of tax evasion and the informal economy (2012, methodology): “The OECD has also done a recent analysis, building on Hussman’s work, in Jütting and de Laiglesia (2009).”
Out of the shadows: a classification of economies by the size and character of their informal sector (2014, unknown): “8 billion) of the global workforce of 3 billion is in the informal sector (Jütting and Laiglesia, 2009), and the informal sector is much larger than the formal sector in many economies across the globe (Dibben and Williams, 2012).”
Shadow Economies around the World: Model Based Estimates (2012, methodology): “Using data from Charmes (2009) we now match share of self-employment as % of nonagricultural employment in 2000.9 for various economies.”
INFORMALITY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY RESPONSES (2017, unknown): “" (Charmes, 2009, p. 32) The conclusion on trends needs to be treated with caution not only because of country specific variations but because different studies can produce different results as new and more recent data become available.”
Tackling the hidden enterprise culture: Government policies to support the formalization of informal entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Of a global working population of some three billion, nearly two-thirds (1.8 billion) work in the informal economy (Jütting and Laiglesia 2009).”