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Informality, Self-employment, and Heterogeneous Managerial Ability: A Model for Developing Countries

Eliane El Badaoui
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Frank Walsh
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Eric Strobl
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Olivier Bargain
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Prudence Magejo
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The view of informal employment as a last resort in the labour market has recently been challenged by numerous studies documenting the existence of a high degree of heterogeneity within the formal and informal sectors. In particular, informal self-employment/employment may be voluntary or forced. There is currently not much theoretical support for these observations. We develop a theoretical model of the labour market with both formal and informal firms and a distribution of managerial skills in the population. Consistent with existing empirical evidence, this setup reconciles the undesirable and productive forms of self-employment that coexist in the economy.

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hal-04606281 , version 1 (10-06-2024)

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Eliane El Badaoui, Frank Walsh, Eric Strobl, Olivier Bargain, Prudence Magejo. Informality, Self-employment, and Heterogeneous Managerial Ability: A Model for Developing Countries. Journal of International Development, 2024, 36, pp.1293-1323. ⟨hal-04606281⟩
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