Informality : exit and exclusion / Guillermo E. Perry [and others]
Informality: Exit and Exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: informality driven by "exclusion" from state benefits or the circuits of the modern economy, a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
©2007.
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| Series: | World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies.
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| Summary: | Informality: Exit and Exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: informality driven by "exclusion" from state benefits or the circuits of the modern economy, and driven by voluntary "exit" decisions resulting from private cost-benefit calculations that lead workers and firms to opt out of formal institutions. They find both lenses have considerable explanatory power to understand the causes and consequences of informality in the region. Informal. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780821370933 0821370936 9780821370926 0821370928 1280857838 9781280857836 9786610857838 6610857830 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |