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Informal Economies
The informal economy comprises the parts of the economy that are not regulated. These parts include illicit activity like the sale of drugs, architects doing work under the table, hairdressers who operate in cash and donât report their income, businesses employing illegal workers, and businesses operating without government required licenses. Informal economic actors are often self-employed, or are employed elsewhere and operating an informal business on the side as a means for supplemental income. Often, informal economic actors are undocumented immigrants who risk being discovered if documentation is heavy. Acting informally allows income to be generated without documentation
Informal economy, informal state : the case of Uzbekistan
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Understanding informal networks in higher education institutions : theoretical concepts from a Russian and Norwegian perspective
This article discusses theoretical concepts with regard to informal networks in the Russian and Norwegian society and higher education institutions (HEI) in particular. Informal networks are operative in both public and private organizations criss-crossing social and job-related networks within these organizations. Formal and informal contacts between representatives of HEIs in the Barents region are often the result of years of close cooperation on student exchange, research projects and joint academic programmes. The aim of this study is to explain theoretical perspectives in relation to informal networks from a Norwegian and a Russian perspective. Understanding both perspectives is essential before describing informal networks across different HEIs in the Barents region and valuable if we seek to study the impact of informal networks on the formal decision-making process. Informal networks are perceived differently because the formal structure in which they operate is different. Analysing the formal structure is therefore suggested in order to better understand the different perspectives surrounding formal/informal networks.acceptedVersio
Tax rates, governance, and the informal economy in high-income countries
This paper studies the mechanisms behind the informal economy in high-income countries.
About 16.3% of output in high-income OECD countries was produced informally in 2001-02. In
a recent paper Davis and Henrekson [2004] show that there exists a positive relationship
between tax rates and the informal economy for high-income OECD countries. Existing models
of the informal economy mostly focus on developing countries. To account for the informal
economy in high-income countries, build a model economy, following Lucas [1978], in which
agents of different managerial abilities decide to become workers, managers of informal firms,
or managers of formal firms. In contrast to formal managers, managers of informal firms do not
pay taxes but run the risk of getting caught, taxed, and fined. A calibrated version of the model
economy is able to generate the observed differences in informal economy of 21 high-income
countries. Although tax rates are crucial for explaining the observed differences in informal
economy, the quality of governance, the extent to which these tax rates are enforced, also plays
an important role. Policy experiments show that by improving the enforcement of their tax
policies countries can reduce informality. A smaller informal economy is accompanied by larger
firms and higher productivity
The Impact of Financial Crises on the Informal Economy: The Turkish Case
Turkey has a large informal economy and has been hit by severe financial crises
causing a devastating impact on its economy. The main objective of this paper is to
analyse the impact of financial crises on the informal economy in Turkey. We
distinguish between four types of financial crises that make up or aggregate financial
crises: internal, external, currency and banking crises. Using vector autoregression
(VARX) in the presence of two key variables (the financial crisis and the informal
economy), we conduct annual time series analysis from 1980 to 2011 and estimate the
response of the informal economy to each type of crisis. To our knowledge, this is the
first empirical study to examine the effects of financial crises on the informal economy
in the context of the Turkish economy. The results show that each type of crisis
produces a significantly positive response to the informal economy. In particular, the
findings of this paper show that financial crises tend to have a permanent positive
effect on the informal economy, suggesting that the informal economy is an important
buffer, which tends to expand in times of crises in Turkey
Informal markets
In most developing countries, it is the private, informal markets that the rural poor have traditionally turned to service their financial needs. Why have these institutions succeeded in providing services to the poor when formal institutions have not? Do these informal institutions provide any lessons that bigger formal institutions could use? What are their basic limitations? Answers to such questions indicate important direc-tions for public policy.Rural poor Developing countries. ,Financial institutions. ,Microenterprises Finance. ,Informal sector (Economics) Developing countries. ,FCND ,
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Understanding informal institutions: Networks and communities in rural development
A major theme within the literature on rural development is that the particular mix of formal and informal institutions present in any situation is a key determinant of development outcomes. However, there is some evidence that in policy and practice there are considerable difficulties in articulating formal organizational
realities with the rules and norms embedded in informally constructed social structures. The same difficulty is in evidence in the New Institutional Economics, where the mainstream literature concedes the critical importance of informal and cultural institutions, but has thus far failed to develop an adequate theory of the informal. This recognized weakness is all the more urgent because of the
growing emphasis on governance, participation and social learning evident in European rural development policy and practice. A clear understanding of the opportunities and pitfalls that arise in working with informal institutions is required, and therefore theories that provide analytical and operational traction in the 'parallel' realities of the formal and the informal. This paper starts from the point of view that at the heart of the institutional dilemma lies a difficulty in conceptualising the informal social structures in which informal institutions are reproduced. A review of relevant bodies of theory is presented; drawing on sociological network theory, perspectives on governance and social capital, and new developments in the organisational and management
literature. These suggest some starting points for a theory of informal social realities and the institutions that structure them. The paper concludes with a
presentation of a theoretical framework for understanding informal structures in rural development in terms of networks and communities
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