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21 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13631
Striking a Balance: Optimal Tax Policy with Labor Market Duality
Gilbert Mbara, Joanna Tyrowicz, Ryszard Kokoszczynski
forthcoming in: Journal of Macroeconomics, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2020.103245
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12385
Nonlinearity between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development
Dong Frank Wu, Friedrich Schneider
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12068
Seeking Rent in the Informal Sector
Saibal Kar, Biswajit Mandal, Sugata Marjit, Vivekananda Mukherjee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11014
Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
Shaimaa Yassin, François Langot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10705
Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century
Rajeev K. Goel, James W. Saunoris, Friedrich Schneider
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10389
The 'Informality Gap': Can Education Help Minorities Escape Informal Employment? Evidence from Peru
Juan Gabriel Delgado Montes, Javier Corrales, Prakarsh Singh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10324
Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy
Semih Tumen
published in: The Economics of Transition, 2017, 25(2), 239-270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10281
Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 157 Countries Worldwide: Updated and New Measures from 1999 to 2013
Mai Hassan, Friedrich Schneider
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10116
Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy
Semih Tumen
published in: Central Bank Review, 2016, 16(3), 109-117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9820
Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions
Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8851
Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
Jan Michael Bauer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8278
The Shadow Economy and Shadow Labor Force: A Survey of Recent Developments
Friedrich Schneider
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8211
Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market: Evidence from Chile
Clement Joubert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7233
Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus
forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economic Theory [Online First]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6979
Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India
Basab Dasgupta, Christian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6935
Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector
Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus
published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118(1), 192-194
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5771
Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland
Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Gabriela Grotkowska, Mieczyslaw Socha
published by Francavilla & Giannelli in: Applied Economics, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1564116
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5519
Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Cristina Terra
published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5384
Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Dominique Pinard
published in: International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (4), 463-479
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4609
Financial Dependence, Formal Credit, and Informal Jobs: New Evidence from Brazilian Household Data
Luis A. V. Catão, Carmen Pagés, Maria Fernanda Rosales
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