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Nairobi's Informal Sector: Dynamic Entrepreneurs or Surplus Labor?

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  1. repec:phd:pjdevt:pjd_2005_vol__xxxii_no__2-c is not listed on IDEAS
  2. Ishengoma, Esther K. & Kappel, Robert, 2006. "Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?," GIGA Working Papers 20, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
  3. Gindling, T.H. & Terrell, Katherine, 2005. "The effect of minimum wages on actual wages in formal and informal sectors in Costa Rica," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 33(11), pages 1905-1921, November.
  4. Jean-Pierre Lachaud, 1995. "Le secteur informel urbain et l'informalisation du travail en Afrique subsaharienne : rhétoriques et réalités - Le cas de la Côte d'Ivoire," Documents de travail 05, Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV.
  5. Usman Ladan & Colin C. Williams, 2019. "Evaluating Theorizations Of Informal Sector Entrepreneurship: Some Lessons From Zamfara, Nigeria," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(04), pages 1-18, December.
  6. Samar Kumar Mishra & Bimal Kishore Sahoo, 2022. "Subcontracting in Unorganized Manufacturing: A Mode of Survival or a Strategy of Growth?," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 65(4), pages 1029-1051, December.
  7. Smith, Paula A. & Metzger, Michael R., 1998. "The return to education: Street vendors in Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 289-296, February.
  8. Grimm, Michael & Knorringa, Peter & Lay, Jann, 2012. "Constrained Gazelles: High Potentials in West Africa’s Informal Economy," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(7), pages 1352-1368.
  9. Gustavo A. García, 2017. "Labor Informality: Choice or Sign of Segmentation? A Quantile Regression Approach at the Regional Level for Colombia," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 985-1017, November.
  10. Surbhi Kesar, 2022. "Nature and Pattern of Subcontracting Linkages in the Informal Economy in India: Implications for Possibilities of Economic Transformation," Working Papers 254, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK, revised Dec 2022.
  11. Gulyani, Sumila & Talukdar, Debabrata, 2010. "Inside Informality: The Links Between Poverty, Microenterprises, and Living Conditions in Nairobi's Slums," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 38(12), pages 1710-1726, December.
  12. Jean-Pierre Lachaud, 1997. "Le secteur informel urbain et l'emploi en Mauritanie : analyse et politiques," Documents de travail 13, Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV.
  13. Justin van der Sluis & Mirjam van Praag & Wim Vijverberg, 2003. "Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 03-046/3, Tinbergen Institute, revised 24 Sep 2004.
  14. Thomas R. Leinbach, 1995. "Regional Science and the Third World: Why Should we be Interested? What Should we do?," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 18(2), pages 201-209, April.
  15. Eliud Dismas Moyi, 2019. "The effect of mobile technology on self-employment in Kenya," Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Springer;UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, vol. 9(1), pages 1-13, December.
  16. Smith, J. Barry & Stelcner, Morton, 1990. "Modeling economic behavior in Peru's informal urban retail sector," Policy Research Working Paper Series 469, The World Bank.
  17. Jiro Nemoto & Hong Zuo, 2017. "Is Informal Employment a Result of Market Segmentation? Evidence from China," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 50(3), pages 309-326, July.
  18. Chaudhuri, Sarbajit & Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini, 2009. "Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach," MPRA Paper 52135, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  19. Amin, Mohammad & Islam, Asif, 2015. "Are Large Informal Firms More Productive than the Small Informal Firms? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys in Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 374-385.
  20. A. J. Knox & H. Bressers & N. Mohlakoana & J. Groot, 2019. "Aspirations to grow: when micro- and informal enterprises in the street food sector speak for themselves," Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Springer;UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, vol. 9(1), pages 1-24, December.
  21. Brueckner, Jan K. & Zenou, Yves, 1999. "Harris-Todaro models with a land market," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 317-339, May.
  22. Paul Wellings & Michael Sutcliffe, 1984. "‘Developing’ the Urban Informal Sector in South Africa: The Reformist Paradigm and its Fallacies," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 15(4), pages 517-550, October.
  23. Jean-Pierre Lachaud, 2010. "Dynamique des profits des micro-entreprises urbaines et genre à Madagascar. Une approche de régressions quantiles," Documents de travail 151, Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV.
  24. Mengistu Assefa Wendimu & Peter Gibbon, 2014. "Labour markets for irrigated agriculture in central Ethiopia: Wage premiums and segmentation," IFRO Working Paper 2014/06, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
  25. Bryceson, Deborah Fahy, 1996. "Deagrarianization and rural employment in sub-Saharan Africa: A sectoral perspective," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 24(1), pages 97-111, January.
  26. Lahiri, Bidisha & Daramola, Richard, 2023. "Effects of credit and labor constraints on microenterprises and the unintended impact of changes in household endowments: Use of threshold estimation to detect heterogeneity," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 21-38.
  27. Ault, Joshua K. & Spicer, Andrew, 2022. "The formal institutional context of informal entrepreneurship: A cross-national, configurational-based perspective," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(9).
  28. Patrick J. McEwan, 1995. "Heterogeneidad en el sector informal urbano de Colombia," Coyuntura Social 13220, Fedesarrollo.
  29. Thomas R. Leinbach, 1991. "Small Towns, Rural Linkages, and Employment," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 14(3), pages 317-323, December.
  30. Atul Arun Pathak & George Kandathil, 2020. "Strategizing in small informal retailers in India: Home delivery as a strategic practice," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 37(3), pages 851-877, September.
  31. Surbhi Kesar, 2024. "Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 55(1), pages 38-75, January.
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