The informal sector and tax on employment: A dynamic general equilibrium investigation

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Saraçoğlu, Dürdane Şirin

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This paper elaborates on the evolution of the informal sector vis-a-vis the evolution of agricultural and formal sectors in a developing country economy in process of growth. The analytical contribution of this essay extends the Ramsey theory of growth into a framework that includes an informal sector and household preferences that display Engel effects in agricultural and in informally produced goods. Besides showing that the informal sector's importance diminishes over time as the country's economy grows, the results from the model demonstrate that a country can successfully reduce its informal employment by reducing tax on employment in the formal sector.

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Informal Sector, Economic Growth, Employment tax, Middle East, Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35769

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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2007.01.035

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Department of Economics, Article

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D. Ş. Saraçoğlu, “The informal sector and tax on employment: A dynamic general equilibrium investigation,” JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL, pp. 529–549, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35769.