Arbeitspapier
Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly power in the goods market, they are subject to matching friction in the labor market, and wages are determined through bargaining between large firms and their workers. The informal sector is found to be endogenously more competitive than the formal one. We find that lower strictness of product or labor market regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies on their effect on wages. Lessening product market strictness increases wages in both sector but also increases the formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring externality due to wage bargaining translates into a smaller relative size of the informal sector.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5519
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Informal Economy; Underground Economy
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices
- Thema
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informality
product and labor market imperfections
firm size
Regulierung
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Wirkungsanalyse
Informeller Sektor
Arbeitslosigkeit
Lohnstruktur
Unvollkommener Markt
Entwicklungsländer
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Charlot, Olivier
Malherbet, Franck
Terra, Cristina
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104113925
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Charlot, Olivier
- Malherbet, Franck
- Terra, Cristina
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2011
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