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Informal Employment and Family Support: An Evolutionary Analysis

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  • Renginar Senses Dayangac

    (Galatasaray University Economic Research Center)

  • Bilge Ozturk Goktuna

    (Galatasaray University Economic Research Center)

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The model presents the dynamics and the equilibrium of an overlapping generation economy when there is informal employment, a pension system and altruistic agents. The model inspires from stylised facts on developping and Euro-Mediteranean countries where family plays a central role in risk insurance. The rational is emphasised by lower costs compared to private and public insurance systems. Given an initial distribution of the informally employed individuals, the model captures the e¤ects of social security decisions and anticipated bequests on the preference of the agents for formal or informal employment. The impact of scal policies on the distribution of employment to formal and informal categories is analysed through the political competition. We show that opportunist behaviour would amplify the relative size of the informal employment.

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  • Renginar Senses Dayangac & Bilge Ozturk Goktuna, 2011. "Informal Employment and Family Support: An Evolutionary Analysis," GIAM Working Papers 11-4, Galatasaray University Economic Research Center.
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