On Defining And Measuring The Informal Sector

Author : Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco Galrão Carneiro
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Empleo informal
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector by Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco Galrão Carneiro Pdf

"A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the degree of congruence between three definitions of informality based on employment contract registration, social security protection, and the characteristics of the employer and employment using Brazilian household survey data for the period 1992 to 2001. The authors present evidence showing that 64 percent of the economically active population are informal according to at least one definition, but only 40 percent are informal according to all three. Steady compositional changes have been taking place among informal workers, conditional on definition.

Author : Andrew Henley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066546708

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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector by Andrew Henley Pdf

Author : Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco G. Carneiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931673442

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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector by Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco G. Carneiro Pdf

A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the degree of congruence between three definitions of informality based on employment contract registration, social security protection, and the characteristics of the employer and employment using Brazilian household survey data for the period 1992 to 2001. The authors present evidence showing that 64 percent of the economically active population are informal according to at least one definition, but only 40 percent are informal according to all three. Steady compositional changes have been taking place among informal workers, conditional on definition. The econometric analysis reveals that the conditional impact of particular factors (demographic, educational attainment, and family circumstances) on the likelihood of informality varies considerably from one definition to another. The results suggest growing heterogeneity within the informal sector. Therefore, the authors argue that informal activity may be as much associated with entrepreneurial dynamism as with any desire to avoid costly contract registration and social protection. However, the authors confirm there is no a priori reason for entrepreneurial activity to be unprotected. Consequently definitions of informality based on occupation and employer size seem the most arbitrary in practice even if conceptually well-founded.

Author : Franziska Ohnsorge,Shu Yu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464817540

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The Long Shadow of Informality by Franziska Ohnsorge,Shu Yu Pdf

A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.

Author : Mr.Gabriel Quiros-Romero,Mr.Thomas F Alexander,Ms.Jennifer Ribarsky
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513568249

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Measuring the Informal Economy by Mr.Gabriel Quiros-Romero,Mr.Thomas F Alexander,Ms.Jennifer Ribarsky Pdf

This paper proposes a framework for measuring the informal economy that is consistent with internationally agreed concepts and methodology for measuring GDP. Based on the proposed framework, the informal economy “comprises production of informal sector units, production of goods for own final use, production of domestic workers, and production generated by informal employment in formal enterprises.” This proposed framework will facilitate preparation of estimates of the informal economy as a component of GDP.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513575919

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The Global Informal Workforce by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between the informal economy, labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion. Informality is a widespread and persistent phenomenon that affects how fast economies can grow, develop, and provide decent economic opportunities for their populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to uncover the vulnerabilities of the informal workforce.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789290922674

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A Handbook on Using the Mixed Survey for Measuring Informal Employment and the Informal Sector by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This handbook presents a cost-effective and reliable data collection strategy for measuring and analyzing informal employment and the informal sector. The cornerstone of this methodology is a version of the mixed survey that is anchored to the Labor Force Survey conducted regularly by developing countries. The Handbook draws from experience in the implementation of the mixed survey in Armenia, Bangladesh, and Indonesia under regional technical assistance 6430: Measuring the Informal Sector. It discusses viable methodologies and processes by which data collected from the mixed survey can be utilized to generate statistics on informal employment and the informal sector. The empirical evidence that will be produced can solidify the efforts on these topics, from research to policy making.

Author : OECD,International Labour Organization,International Monetary Fund,International Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264175358

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Measuring the Non-Observed Economy: A Handbook by OECD,International Labour Organization,International Monetary Fund,International Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States Pdf

This essential Handbook makes underground, hidden, grey economies intelligible and consistently quantifiable. An invaluable tool for statistics producers and users and researchers, the book explains how the non-observed economy can be measured and ...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9221281701

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Women and Men in the Informal Economy by Anonim Pdf

This publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents statistics on the composition and contribution of the informal economy as well as on specific groups of urban informal workers.

Author : Ceyhun Elgin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000163810

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The Informal Economy by Ceyhun Elgin Pdf

The Informal Economy: Measures, Causes, and Consequences provides a comprehensive account of the economics of informality through the lenses of various economic perspectives. Although informal economic activity is widespread all around the world, many issues around its nature and consequences remain largely under-explored or unresolved. Most importantly, the evidence presented in the existing literature on informality has failed to generate a consensus on the measurements, causes, and effects of the informal sector among researchers. Most, if not all, of the empirical results are inconclusive or dependent on the nature of the dataset used in the analysis. This book aims to address that gap by exploring different definitions and measures of the informal economy, including different perspectives, then subjecting these measures to a battery of empirical tests to examine the determinants and effects of informality. Through this analysis and an extensive review of the literature, the book explores many of the economic, political, and social factors of the informal economy including the relationship between informality and the tax burden, tax enforcement, and institutional quality. This key text makes for compulsive reading to scholars and students interested in the informal or shadow economy.

Author : Ana Maria Oviedo,Mark R. Thomas,Kamer Karakurum- zdemir
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821379976

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Economic Informality by Ana Maria Oviedo,Mark R. Thomas,Kamer Karakurum- zdemir Pdf

This survey assembles recent theoretical and empirical advances in the literature on economic informality and analyzes the causes and costs of informality in developed and developing economies. Using recent evidence, the survey discusses the nature and roots of informal economic activity across countries, distinguishing between informality as the result of exclusion and exit. The survey provides an extensive review of recent international experience with policies aimed at reducing informality, in particular, policies that facilitate the formalization process, create a framework for the transition from informality to formality, lend support to newly created firms, reduce or eliminate inconsistencies across regulation and government agencies, increase information flows, and increase enforcement.

Author : Ioana Horodnic,Peter Rodgers,Colin Williams,Legha Momtazian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351655316

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The Informal Economy by Ioana Horodnic,Peter Rodgers,Colin Williams,Legha Momtazian Pdf

During much of the twentieth century, informal employment and entrepreneurship was commonly depicted as a residue from a previous era. Its continuing presence was seen to be a sign of "backwardness" whilst the formal economy represented "progress". In recent decades, however, numerous studies have revealed not only that informal employment is extensive and persistent but also that it is growing relative to formal employment in many populations. Whilst in the developing world, the informal economy is often found to be the mainstream economy, nevertheless, in the developed world too, informality is currently still estimated to account for notable per cent of GDP. The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices intends to engage with these issues, providing a much-need ‘contextualised’ approach to explain the persistence and growth of forms of informal economic practices and entrepreneurial activities in the twenty-first century. Using a diverse range of empirical case studies from Europe, Africa, North Africa and Asia, this book unpacks the different varieties of forms of informal work and entrepreneurship and provides a critical analysis of existing theorisations used to explain such phenomena. This book’s aim is to examine the nature and persistence of informal work and entrepreneurship, across a variety of empirical settings, from within the developed world, the developing world and within transformation economies within post-socialist spaces. Given its worldwide, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach and recent interest in the informal economies by a number of disciplines and organisations, this book will be of vital reading to those operating in the fields of: Economics, political economy and management, Human and economic geography and Economic anthropology and sociology as well as development studies

Author : Alejandro Portes,Manuel Castells,Lauren A. Benton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017237938

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The Informal Economy by Alejandro Portes,Manuel Castells,Lauren A. Benton Pdf

A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up "shop" on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semiconductors in a San Diego home. A Leningrad doctor sells needed medicine to a desperate patient. All are part of a growing worldwide phenomenon that is widely known but little understood. The informal or underground economy is thriving today, not only in the Third World countries where it was first reported and studied but also in Eastern Europe and the developed nations of the West. The Informal Economy is the first book to bring together studies from all three of these settings and to integrate them into a coherent theoretical framework. Taking an international perspective, the authors dispel a number of misconceptions about the informal economy. They make clear, for instance, that it is not solely a province of the poor. Cutting across social strata, it reflects a political and economic realignment between employers and workers and a shift in the regulatory mission of the government. Throughout, the authors' theoretical observations serve not only to unify material from diverse sources but also to map out directions for further research.

Author : Martha Chen,Françoise Carré
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429575389

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The Informal Economy Revisited by Martha Chen,Françoise Carré Pdf

This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority of the workforce in developing countries work in the informal economy, and in countries around the world new forms of informal employment are emerging. Yet the informal workforce is not well understood, remains undervalued and is widely stigmatised. Contributors to the volume bridge a range of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, development economics, law, political science, social policy, sociology, statistics, urban planning and design. The Informal Economy Revisited also focuses on specific groups of informal workers, including home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers, to provide a grounded insight into disciplinary debates. Ultimately, the book calls for a paradigm shift in how the informal economy is perceived to reflect the realities of informal work in the Global South, as well as the informal practices of the state and capital, not just labour. The Informal Economy Revisited is the culmination of 20 years of pioneering work by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing), a global network of researchers, development practitioners and organisations of informal workers in 90 countries. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and advocates will all find this book an invaluable guide to the significance and complexities of the informal economy, and its role in today’s globalised economy. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429200724, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Erika Kraemer-Mbula,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107157545

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The Informal Economy in Developing Nations by Erika Kraemer-Mbula,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent Pdf

This pioneering study offers a conceptual model and rich empirical evidence to help researchers and policy-makers understand informal innovation in developing countries.