Arbeitspapier
A theory of the informal sector
In many countries, especially poor countries, a heavy burden of taxes, bribes, and bureaucratic hassles drives many producers into the informal sector. Is this situation explicable only as a consequence of either the ignorance or the ineptitude of the state authorities? On the contrary this paper shows that we can attribute the existence of a large informal sector to the fact that, because productive endowments contain important unobservable components, the state cannot adjust the amounts that it extracts from producers in the formal sector according to each producer`s endowment. Given this fact we Þnd that, if either the distribution of endowments is sufficiently inegalitarian or the production of private substitutes for public services is sufficiently easy, then the state would extract a large enough amount from producers in the formal sector that poorly endowed producers would choose to work in the informal sector. This result obtains both for a proprietary state, which maximizes its own net revenue, and for a hypothetical benevolent state, which would maximize the total net income of producers. But, we also Þnd that a proprietary state would create an informal sector for a larger set of combinations of parameter values than would a hypothetical benevolent state.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2002-07
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Informal Sector
Proprietary State
Public Services
Taxes
Bribes
Informeller Sektor
Öffentliche Dienstleistung
Steuer
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Azuma, Yoshiaki
Grossman, Herschel I.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Brown University, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Providence, RI
- (wann)
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2002
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Azuma, Yoshiaki
- Grossman, Herschel I.
- Brown University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2002
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