2008
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.985284
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Government Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to quantitatively investigate the interaction between the firms' choice to operate in the formal or the informal sector and the government policy on taxation and enforcement. Informality is here defined as unregistered firms in legal activities. I develop quantitative theory, in general equilibrium, using the main determinants of informality: taxes, enforcement, regulation. I incorporate these features in a model of heterogeneous firms, where firms differ in their productivities. I use… Show more

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“…Variants of that budget constraint can be found in Cukierman et al (1992), Edwards and Tabellini (1992), De Cavalcanti and Villamil (2003), Koreschkova (2006), or Prado (2011.…”
Section: A Simple Theoretical Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Variants of that budget constraint can be found in Cukierman et al (1992), Edwards and Tabellini (1992), De Cavalcanti and Villamil (2003), Koreschkova (2006), or Prado (2011.…”
Section: A Simple Theoretical Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ou ainda, contribuir com a previdência de maneira individual ou a partir do seguro facultativo, pois esse é um grupo que a princípio deveria contribuir. PNAD 2009, 2011-2014(IBGE, 2016 Os resultados também mostram que quanto mais jovem é o microempresário menor a possibilidade de não contribuir com a previdência, quando comparados aos que estão na faixa etária dos 35 aos 40 anos. Nota-se esse comportamento para todo o período analisado, sendo possível que os jovens estejam passando mais tempo se qualificando.…”
Section: Resultsunclassified
“…Ao mesmo tempo, reduz a execução da informalidade, evidentemente, criando outra distorção na economia. A tarefa do governo é equilibrar essas distorções nos dois setores e aumentar a receita de forma suficiente para financiar seus gastos (Prado, 2011).…”
Section: Empresário Informalunclassified
“…However, I do not have nancial constraints in my model. In a related contribution, Prado (2011) also studies the e ect of regulation, enforcement and taxation on the size of the informal economy within a static model.…”
Section: Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%