Informal employment or informal firms? Regulatory enforcement and the transformation of the informal sector
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Informal sector; Regulation; Spillovers; Informal work; Regulatory; Output;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ISF-2021-08-09 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-IUE-2021-08-09 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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