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into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …

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Taxation and the shadow economy : how the tax system can stimulate and enforce the formalization of business activities

Awasthi, Rajul; Engelschalk, Michael - 2018

Cash transactions for goods and services in which no receipts are issued greatly increase the risk of tax evasion. Despite the availability of banking services and alternative payment, key sectors of the economy remain largely cash-based in almost all developing countries. This paper shows the...

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Dynamic relationship between corruption and youth unemployment : empirical evidences from a system GMM approach

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Institutional quality mediates the effect of human capital on economic performance

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Informality, harassment, and corruption : evidence from informal enterprise data from Harare, Zimbabwe

Francis, David - 2019

New representative survey data for Harare, Zimbabwe are used to analyze the conditions under which informal businesses encounter requests for bribes. A simple model develops basic expectations of bribe exposure: those with higher opportunity costs of formalizing and with a higher ability to pay...

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Casting a shadow : productivity of formal firms and informality

Amin, Mohammed; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Okou, Cedric - 2019

Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity between formal and informal firms in developing countries for which comparable data are available. It also investigates the impact of competition from informal firms on the labor...

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