کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5094989 1376262 2010 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Regulation of entry, labor market institutions and the informal sector
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Regulation of entry, labor market institutions and the informal sector
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper develops a two-sector matching model that incorporates the main features of Latin American labor markets. It has an innovation in its matching structure that makes it more consistent with some key stylized facts of the informal sector in these countries. The model is numerically solved using Brazilian data and several policy simulations are performed. Reducing formal sector's entry cost significantly reduces the size of the informal sector and improves overall labor market performance. Increasing enforcement significantly reduces informality but has strong adverse effects on unemployment and welfare. Thus, the results indicate that the tradeoff between lower informal employment and higher unemployment rates is not present when one looks at policies that aim at reducing the costs of being formal, as opposed to policies that simply increase the costs of being informal.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Development Economics - Volume 91, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 87-99
نویسندگان
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