Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort

By I. Günther, Andrey Launov. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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The Impact of Educational Levels on Formal and Informal Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “Even though secondary education also increases awareness of the potential negative repercussions of informal entrepreneurship, this effect is counteracted by a lack of organizational, planning, administrative, bureaucratic, leadership or human resource management skills (Lazear, 2005; Levie and Auti”
Entrepreneurial activity in the informal economy: a missing piece of the entrepreneurship jigsaw puzzle (2015, background): “There is a host of reasons to pursue informal activities: a strategy of last resort for those rationalized out of the formal sector (Günther and Launov 2012) or never having been able to gain formal employment; an attractive employment and income opportunity; mutual support, oftentimes at…”
‘Recession push’ and ‘prosperity pull’ entrepreneurship in a rural developing context (2013, background): “Particularly informal businesses in a developing context can be grouped into opportunity-driven activities on the one hand and activities of last resort on the other hand (Gunther and Launov 2011 ).”
Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “…the implications of the prevalence of informality in a venture’s environment are not so easy to assess given the link between informality and poverty, which is well established by development economists at the macro and micro levels (De Soto, 2000; Gulyani & Talukdar, 2010; Günther & Launov, 2012).”