Informal Employment : Safety Net or Growth Engine?
Is informal employment a safety net or a growth engine? To address this question, this paper studies the trends and cycles of informal employment. It first presents a theoretical model of long- and short-run behavior of informal labor. Then it analyzes these relationships empirically, using the shar...
Main Authors: | Loayza, Norman V., Rigolini, Jamele |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4722 |
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