Minimum wage and tax kink effects in the formal and informal sector in Zambia
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Tax bunching; Personal income tax; Minimum wage; Informality; Zambia;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INV-2024-04-01 (Investment)
- NEP-IUE-2024-04-01 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2024-04-01 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-PBE-2024-04-01 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2024-04-01 (Public Finance)
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