Informality and Profitability : Evidence from a New Firm Survey in Ecuador

This article estimates the impact of informality on profits using a new survey administered to 1,200 firms with less than 50 employees in four cities in Ecuador. The article proposes a novel definition of informality which explicitly recognises that most firms comply with some regulations but not ot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Medvedev, Denis, Oviedo, Ana María
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22697