Informality, self-employment and heterogeneous managerial ability: A model for developing countries

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI:10.1002/jid.3847

Eliane Badaoui, Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

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Abstract

The view of informal employment as a last resort in the labour market has recently been challenged by numerous studies documenting the existence of a high degree of heterogeneity within the formal and informal sectors. In particular, informal self-employment/employment may be voluntary or forced. There is currently not much theoretical support for these observations. We develop a theoretical model of the labour market with both formal and informal firms and a distribution of managerial skills in the population. Consistent with existing empirical evidence, this setup reconciles the undesirable and productive forms of self-employment that coexist in the economy.

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非正规性、自营职业和异质性管理能力：发展中国家的模式

非正规就业是劳动力市场的最后手段，这一观点最近受到了许多研究的质疑，这些研究记录了正规和非正规就业部门存在的高度异质性。特别是，非正规自雇/就业可能是自愿的，也可能是被迫的。目前，对这些观点的理论支持并不多。我们建立了一个劳动力市场理论模型，其中既有正规企业，也有非正规企业，同时还考虑了人口中管理技能的分布情况。与现有的经验证据相一致的是，这种设定调和了经济中并存的不良自雇形式和生产性自雇形式。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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