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References for Formalization of jobs and firms in emerging market economies through registration reform
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Further reading
- De Soto, H. The Other Path—The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. London: I. B. Tauris, 1989.
- Packard, T., Koettl, J., Montenegro, C. E. In From the Shadow: Integrating Europe’s Informal Labor. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012.
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Key references
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World Bank Doing Business
Database. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013. Key reference: [1]
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Perry, G. S., Maloney, W. F., Arias, O. S., Fajnzylber, P., Mason, A. D., Saavedra-Chanduvi, J. Informality: Exit
and Exclusion. Washington, DC: World Bank Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, 2007. Key reference: [2]
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McKenzie, D., Sakho, Y. S. "Does it pay firms
to register for taxes? The impact of formality on firm
profitability" Journal of
Development Economics 91 (2010): 15–24. Key reference: [3]
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Monteiro, J., Assunção, J. "Coming out of the
shadows? Estimating the impact of bureaucracy simplification and
tax cut on formality in Brazilian microenterprises" Journal of
Development Economics 99:1 (2012): 105–115. Key reference: [4]
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Fajnzylber, P., Maloney, W. F., Montes-Rojas, G. V. "Does formality
improve micro-firm performance? Evidence from the Brazilian
SIMPLES program" Journal of
Development Economics 94:2 (2011): 262–276. Key reference: [5]
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Bruhn, M. "License to sell:
The effect of business registration reform on entrepreneurial
activity in Mexico" Review of Economics
and Statistics 93:1 (2011): 382–386. Key reference: [6]
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Bruhn, M. "A tale of two
species: Revisiting the effect of registration reform on
informal business owners in Mexico" Journal of
Development Economics 103 (2013): 275–283. Key reference: [7]
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Kaplan, D., Piedra, E., Seira, E. "Entry regulation
and business start-ups: Evidence from Mexico" Journal of Public
Economics 95:11–12 (2011): 1501–1515. Key reference: [8]
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Mullainathan, S., Schnabl, P. "Does less market
entry regulation generate more entrepreneurs? Evidence from a
regulatory reform in Peru" In: Lerner, J., Schoar, A. (eds). International
Differences in Entrepreneurship. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010. Key reference: [9]
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De Mel, S., McKenzie, D., Woodruff, C. "The demand for, and
consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri
Lanka" American Economic
Journal: Applied Economics 5:2 (2013): 122–150. Key reference: [10]
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De Andrade, G. H., Bruhn, M., McKenzie, D. A Helping Hand or
the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What
Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms IZA Discussion
Paper, 2013. Key reference: [11]
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Almeida, R., Carneiro, P. "Enforcement of
Labor Regulation and Informality" American Economic
Journal: Applied Economics 4:3 (2012): 64–89. Key reference: [12]
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De Soto, H. The Other Path: The
Invisible Revolution in the Third World. London: I. B. Tauris, 1989. Key reference: [13]
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World Bank Doing Business
Database. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013.
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Additional References
- Rocha, R., Ulyssea, G., Rachter, L. "Do lower taxes reduce informality? Evidence from Brazil" Journal of Development Economics 134 (2018): 28–49.
- Piza, C. "Out of the shadows? Revisiting the impact of the Brazilian SIMPLES program on firms’ formalization rates" Journal of Development Economics 134 (2018): 125–132.