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Policies for a heterogeneous informal sector in Latin America

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  • Tokman, Victor E., 1989. "Policies for a heterogeneous informal sector in Latin America," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 17(7), pages 1067-1076, July.
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    2. Alan Gilbert, 1997. "Employment and Poverty during Economic Restructuring: The Case of Bogotá, Colombia," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 34(7), pages 1047-1070, June.
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    4. Kumar, Krishna B. & Mahmud, Minhaj & Nataraj, Shanthi & Cho, Yoon Y., 2019. "Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector," IZA Discussion Papers 12064, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Goktuna, Bilge Ozturk & Dayangac, Renginar, 2011. "Rethinking the informal labour from an evolutionary point of view," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 40(5), pages 609-615.
    6. Ricardo A. Lagos, 1995. "Formalizing the Informal Sector: Barriers and Costs," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 26(1), pages 111-131, January.
    7. Kevane, Michael & Wydick, Bruce, 2001. "Microenterprise Lending to Female Entrepreneurs: Sacrificing Economic Growth for Poverty Alleviation?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 29(7), pages 1225-1236, July.
    8. Michael J. Pisani, 2021. "New Age Informality: Hispanics and the Sharing Economy," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-23, March.
    9. Vaillancourt-Laflamme, Catherine., 2005. "Trade unions and informal workers' associations in the urban informal economy of Ecuador," ILO Working Papers 993837983402676, International Labour Organization.
    10. Lahiri, Bidisha & Daramola, Richard, 2023. "Effects of credit and labor constraints on microenterprises and the unintended impact of changes in household endowments: Use of threshold estimation to detect heterogeneity," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 21-38.
    11. Robert Pollin & James Heintz, 2003. "Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Developing Countries," Working Papers wp60, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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    13. Marcouiller, Douglas & Ruiz de Castilla, Veronica & Woodruff, Christopher, 1997. "Formal Measures of the Informal-Sector Wage Gap in Mexico, El Salvador, and Peru," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 45(2), pages 367-392, January.
    14. Tesfachew T., 1992. "Government policies and the urban informal sector in Africa," ILO Working Papers 992899183402676, International Labour Organization.
    15. Lacey Ann Wrubel, 2010. "Earnings determinants for own-account workers in the urban informal economy: The case of Bogotá, Colombia," Serie de Documentos en Economía y Violencia 6842, Centro de Investigaciones en Violencia, Instituciones y Desarrollo Económico (VIDE).
    16. Adesiyan Oluwafunmilola Felicia & Adesiyan Adewumi Titus & Adebayo Simeon Bamire & Coulibaly Ousmane & Robert Asiedu, 2016. "Effects of Policies on Yam Production and Consumption in Nigeria," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(3), pages 363-378, July.
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    19. Mead, Donald C. & Morrisson, Christian, 1996. "The informal sector elephant," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 24(10), pages 1611-1619, October.
    20. Galli, Rossana. & Kucera, David,, 2008. "Gender, informality and employment adjustment in Latin America," ILO Working Papers 994135003402676, International Labour Organization.
    21. Yumiko Sano, 1998. "Un modelo multi-elección del empleo formal e informal de mujeres en Lima, Perú," Apuntes. Revista de ciencias sociales, Fondo Editorial, Universidad del Pacífico, vol. 25(42), pages 107-139.
    22. Honig, Benson, 1998. "What determines success? examining the human, financial, and social capital of jamaican microentrepreneurs," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 13(5), pages 371-394, September.

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