On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector: Evidence from Brazil
Recent debate on the reasons for the informal sector has led to renewed focus on how to operationalize the measurement of informal employment. This paper investigates congruence between three empirical measures of the rate of informality using Brazilian household survey data for the period 1992-2004...
Main Authors: | Henley, Andrew, Arabsheibani, G. Reza, Carneiro, Francisco G. |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5831 |
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