The Informal Sector

By Á. D. Paula, Jose A. Scheinkman. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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MODELING INFORMALITY FORMALLY: HOUSEHOLDS AND FIRMS (2012, positive): “For their part, de Paula and Scheinkman (2006) assume that firms pay taxes on sales when they operate in the formal sector but, on the other hand, pay lower interest rates on capital.”
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy (2013, background): “De Paula and Scheinkman (2007) find that informal firms are often a form of ‘evasive’ entrepreneurship in order to evade taxes or regulations, or to engage in illegal trade.”
Releasing Constraints to Growth or Pushing on a String? Policies and Performance of Mexican Micro-Firms (2009, background): “In another example, de Paula and Scheinkman (2007) have argued that firms would prefer to pay taxes for having subcontracting relations with bigger firms.”
Entrepreneurship and structural economic transformation (2008, background): “…evidence that measures entrepreneurial ability by educational level and/or age finds that entrepreneurial ability influences the probability that the entrepreneur will start a firm in the formal (as opposed to the informal or survivalist) sector of the economy (De Paula and Scheinkman 2007).”
Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort (2012, background): “De Paula and Sheinkman (2008) further stress that informal activity is mainly driven by tax avoidance, which would provide an additional argumentwhy individuals prefer being employed in the informal sector despite considerably lowerwages (given the same individual characteristics).”
Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality (2007, neutral): “4 See for instance, Rauch (1991), Loayza (1996), Maloney (1999, 2004), Boeri and Garibaldi (2006), de Paula and Scheinkman (2007), Loayza and Rigolini (2007) postulate a continuum of entrepreneurial ability and workers sorting themselves among different formal and informal sectors of work.”