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Informal Construction Employment, Earnings and Activities: A Boon or Bane for Tanzania? 非正式建筑就业、收入和活动:坦桑尼亚的福还是祸?
B. Mkenda, Jehovaness Aikaeli
This paper assesses whether the growth of informal construction employment and activities in Tanzania are a boon or bane for informal workers. It examines the importance of employment and income provision, employment conditions, and linkages between formal and informal firms. It also examines the determinants of earnings of workers and the challenges faced by the informal construction sector. The study finds that informal construction activities are important in providing employment and income to people, although a significant number of employees work without contracts and pensions. The level of informal sector earnings is also lower than that of the formal sector. The statistically significant results from regression analysis of the determinants of earnings, which are positively related to earnings are: age, education level, and number of years of experience. The policy implications of this study include: the need for informal construction employees to be affiliated to pensions and health insurance benefits; requirement of a mechanism to enable them to formalize easily in order for them to access credit and to expand their operations; improvement in their skills to enhance their income levels so as to reduce poverty; and to empower them to share in the growth of construction activities.
本文评估了坦桑尼亚非正式建筑就业和活动的增长对非正式工人是利还是弊。它审查了就业和收入提供的重要性、就业条件以及正规和非正规企业之间的联系。报告还审查了工人收入的决定因素和非正规建筑部门面临的挑战。研究发现,非正规建筑活动在为人们提供就业和收入方面发挥着重要作用,尽管有相当多的雇员在没有合同和养老金的情况下工作。非正规部门的收入水平也低于正规部门。对收入的决定因素进行回归分析,统计上显著的结果是,与收入正相关的因素是:年龄、教育水平和工作年限。本研究的政策意涵包括:非正式建筑雇员需要加入养恤金和健康保险福利;要求建立一种机制,使它们能够容易地正式化,以便获得信贷和扩大业务;提高他们的技能,提高他们的收入水平,以减少贫穷;并使他们能够分享建筑活动的发展。
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引用次数: 6
Determinants of Transitions Across Formal/Informal Sectors in Egypt 埃及正规/非正规部门转型的决定因素
A. Tansel, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We first provide a diagnosis of dynamic worker flows across different labor market states. We develop transition probabilities by gender across different labor market states utilizing Markov transition processes. Next we identify the effects of individual, household, job characteristics and location on different mobility patterns by estimating a multinomial logit regression. The results point to the highly static nature of the Egyptian labor market. Government employment and the out of labor force are the most persistent labor market states. Further, only a few of the explanatory variables except high levels of education are found to have predictive power in explaining the transitions from formal wage, informal wage, self-employment, unemployment government employment and out of labor market states.
非正式性是埃及劳动力市场的一个显著特征,许多发展中国家也是如此。这是第一次使用来自埃及的面板数据对不同劳动力市场国家之间工人过渡的决定因素进行研究。我们首先对不同劳动力市场状态下的动态劳动力流动进行了诊断。我们利用马尔可夫过渡过程在不同的劳动力市场状态中按性别发展过渡概率。接下来,我们通过估计多项逻辑回归来确定个人、家庭、工作特征和地点对不同流动模式的影响。调查结果表明,埃及劳动力市场高度静态。政府就业和失业劳动力是劳动力市场最持久的状态。此外,除了高教育水平外,只有少数解释变量在解释从正规工资、非正规工资、自营职业、失业、政府就业和退出劳动力市场状态的转变方面具有预测能力。
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引用次数: 16
Dirty Laundry: Are Chinese Legal Ivory Factories Using Poached Ivory as an Input? 丑闻:中国合法象牙工厂是否使用偷猎象牙作为原料?
B. Moyle, Kirsten Conrad
It has been alleged or suspected that the legal ivory factories in China launder poached ivory to make carvings. In this research the throughput of tusks across all 37 factories is analysed. The period covers the first allocation of tusks by the Chinese State Forest Administration in July 2009 up to January 2014. The number of factories is fixed, the number of carvers is stable and ivory carving is time-intensive. Diversion of carver-effort to use illegal ivory must come at the expense of legal output. If laundering is occurring it should have an appreciable effect on the rate at which legal tusks are consumed as carvings. The throughput of 1293 tusks is analysed with two modelling approaches. These were a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and a Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) approach. Tusk throughput is affected by the size of the tusk and the experience of the carver. Factories also report tusks used up in production in batches. The models show that this reporting effect is partly explained by the Chinese retail spending cycle. No significant deviation in tusk throughput is detected. This implies that the legal factory system is largely clean of illegal ivory. The results also provide indirect evidence that the illegal ivory entering China is destined largely for a speculative market in raw ivory or for an autonomous illegal factory network.
有人指控或怀疑,中国的合法象牙工厂将偷猎的象牙洗白,用于雕刻。在本研究中,分析了所有37家工厂的象牙吞吐量。这段时间涵盖了中国国家林业局从2009年7月到2014年1月的第一次象牙分配。工厂数量固定,雕刻师数量稳定,象牙雕刻费时费力。雕刻者转移使用非法象牙的努力必须以牺牲合法产出为代价。如果存在洗钱行为,它应该对合法象牙作为雕刻品被消费的比率产生可观的影响。用两种建模方法对1293根象牙的吞吐量进行了分析。这些是向量误差校正模型(VECM)和看似无关回归(SUR)方法。象牙吞吐量受象牙大小和雕刻师经验的影响。工厂也会批量报告象牙在生产过程中用完的情况。模型显示,这种报告效应部分可以用中国零售支出周期来解释。未检测到象牙吞吐量的显著偏差。这意味着合法工厂系统基本上没有非法象牙。研究结果还提供了间接证据,表明进入中国的非法象牙主要是用于原料象牙的投机市场,或者是一个自主的非法工厂网络。
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引用次数: 4
An Exploratory Study of Guanxi Practice and Business Ethics in Mainland China: Foreign Firms 中国大陆企业关系实践与商业伦理的探索性研究——以外资企业为例
Hubert Shea
Guanxi has been viewed by the extant scholarly studies as the most widely adopted business practice for local and foreign firms to grow and sustain their businesses in mainland China. However, the practice of Guanxi has being criticized as the main cause of bribery and corrupt activities which are in contravention of business ethical standards adopted by foreign firms in their home countries. This exploratory research aims at shedding light on Guanxi practice of foreign firms and how it relates to their businesses and business ethics in mainland China. Based on in-depth interviews with 10 senior executives from foreign firms and qualitative data collected from different sources, the findings of this research demonstrate that the reliance on Guanxi practice is still salient to foreign firms due to the influence of numerous formal and informal constraints in mainland China. A majority of the researched foreign firms had a clear view that drawing on Guanxi with government officers and other business parties can possibly involve interpersonal exchange of favours that might lead to dubious business behaviours. In addition to the establishment of formal and informal forms of governance mechanism, a variety of Guanxi building and maintenance strategies were adopted by the researched foreign firms and due attention was paid not to run afoul of legal compliance issues in mainland China and their host countries as well as the local business convention. The findings of this research raises a number of theoretical and managerial issues pertinent to ethical practice of Guanxi and the institutional environment in which foreign firms operated. Findings of this research argue that foreign firms should commit themselves to business ethics in light of the new rules of globalisation but the influence of path dependence is still resilient in light of ambivalent socio-politico configurations in mainland China which can ingrain key challenges to their ethical business practice. Accordingly, a governance mechanism to maintain ethical Guanxi practice is recommended in this research. Furthermore, this research demonstrates that the Chinese government should strive to promote ethical business culture and enforce a range of administrative and legal reforms that can incrementally wipe out and disincentivise unethical Guanxi practice. This research offers essential insights for executives who intend to advance a better understanding of ethical business practice with different government officers and business parties in mainland China.
在现有的学术研究中,关系被视为本地和外国公司在中国大陆发展和维持业务的最广泛采用的商业实践。然而,关系的做法被批评为贿赂和腐败行为的主要原因,这些行为违反了外国公司在其本国采用的商业道德标准。本探索性研究旨在揭示外国公司的关系实践及其与中国大陆的业务和商业道德的关系。基于对10位外资企业高管的深度访谈和从不同来源收集的定性数据,本研究的结果表明,由于中国大陆众多正式和非正式约束的影响,外资企业对关系实践的依赖仍然突出。大多数被调查的外国公司都清楚地认识到,利用与政府官员和其他商业团体的关系可能涉及人际交换利益,从而可能导致可疑的商业行为。除了建立正式和非正式形式的治理机制外,所研究的外国公司还采用了各种关系建立和维护策略,并注意不与中国大陆及其东道国的法律合规问题以及当地的商业惯例相冲突。本研究的结果提出了一些与关系伦理实践和外国公司经营的制度环境相关的理论和管理问题。本研究的结果认为,外国公司应该在全球化的新规则下致力于商业道德,但鉴于中国大陆矛盾的社会政治配置,路径依赖的影响仍然具有弹性,这可能使他们的道德商业实践面临根深蒂固的关键挑战。因此,本研究建议建立一种治理机制来维持伦理关系的实践。此外,本研究表明,中国政府应努力促进道德商业文化,并实施一系列行政和法律改革,以逐步消除和抑制不道德的关系行为。这项研究为那些想要更好地理解中国大陆不同政府官员和商业团体的道德商业实践的高管们提供了重要的见解。
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引用次数: 0
Tackling Europe's Informal Economy: A Critical Evaluation of the Neo-Liberal De-Regulatory Perspective 应对欧洲非正规经济:对新自由主义去管制观点的批判性评价
Colin Williams
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been widespread recognition that the informal economy is a sizeable and growing feature in the global economy. To explain this, neo-liberals have contended that the informal economy is a direct result of over-regulation, high taxes and state interference in the free market. Their remedy, therefore, is de-regulation, tax reductions and minimal state intervention. This article evaluates critically this neo-liberal perspective towards the informal economy. Reviewing cross-national comparative data from the 27 member states of the European Union, the finding is that few people explain their own and others’ participation in the informal economy using such rationales, that higher tax rates are not correlated with larger informal economies, and that lower levels of state intervention are correlated with larger (not smaller) informal economies. The article concludes by refuting the neo-liberal approach as a remedy and calling for more, rather than less, regulation of the economy.
自世纪之交以来,人们普遍认识到,非正规经济是全球经济中一个相当大且不断增长的特征。为了解释这一点,新自由主义者认为,非正规经济是过度监管、高税收和国家干预自由市场的直接结果。因此,他们的补救办法是放松管制、减税和尽量减少国家干预。本文批判性地评价了这种对非正规经济的新自由主义观点。回顾欧盟27个成员国的跨国比较数据,发现很少有人用这样的理由来解释自己和他人对非正规经济的参与,高税率与较大的非正规经济无关,低水平的国家干预与较大(而不是较小)的非正规经济相关。文章最后驳斥了新自由主义作为补救措施的方法,并呼吁对经济进行更多而不是更少的监管。
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引用次数: 32
Post-Socialist Anomie Through the Lens of Economic Modernization and the Formalization of Social Control 经济现代化与社会控制形式化镜头下的后社会主义失范
Christopher S. Swader, L. Kosals
This paper inquires into how economic modernization impacts normative regulation by spurring, on the one hand (a) formal media of normative regulation (also known as formal social control) in the spheres of politics, economics and interpersonal relations and, on the other hand, (b) informality via the lower density of norms (also known as anomie). This work then asks how these two processes relate to one another. Evidence indicates that modernization is clearly linked to formal media of normative regulation in the spheres of politics (measured as greater government effectiveness), economics (i.e. lower proportion of shadow economy), and interpersonal relations (i.e. less reliance upon family and friendships). Moreso, our multi-level regression models, using World Values Survey data, report that political formality (government effectiveness) at the country level is linked to less anomie at the individual level. Overall, we suggest that economic growth initially brings normlessness through undermining informal social control. However, with greater economic stock, there is a tendency for greater political formalization, formal social control, which brings levels of anomie down. Furthermore, even after all controls, there is a strong anomie syndrome in post-communist societies
本文探讨了经济现代化如何通过一方面刺激(a)政治、经济和人际关系领域的规范性监管的正式媒介(也称为正式社会控制),另一方面(b)通过较低规范密度(也称为失范)的非正式性来影响规范性监管。这项工作然后询问这两个过程如何相互关联。有证据表明,现代化显然与政治(以更大的政府效率来衡量)、经济(即影子经济比例较低)和人际关系(即对家庭和友谊的依赖较少)领域的规范性监管的正式媒体有关。此外,我们使用世界价值观调查数据建立的多层次回归模型表明,国家层面的政治形式(政府效率)与个人层面的失范程度较低有关。总体而言,我们认为经济增长最初是通过破坏非正式的社会控制而带来不规范的。然而,随着经济存量的增加,有一种更大的政治正规化的趋势,正式的社会控制,这降低了社会反常的水平。此外,即使在所有控制措施之后,后共产主义社会仍存在强烈的失范综合症
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引用次数: 4
The Global Fight Against Child Trafficking: How Can It Be Won? 全球打击拐卖儿童的斗争:如何取得胜利?
Sylvain Dessy, Caroline Orset, Legrand Yémélé Kana
We study how countries can coordinate their national action plans so as to fight global child trafficking. As both the demand and supply of trafficked children are transboundary in scope, international cooperation may be necessary to mitigate cross-country externalities. We show that specialization is the main feature of international cooperation. We also show that the pattern of specialization depends only on the level of economic development of state-parties. In particular, specialization leads to asymmetric national action plans when state-parties have different levels of economic development: the governments of poorer countries specialize on fighting the supply of trafficked children from their territories, while the governments of richer countries specialize on fighting the demand arising within their territories.
我们研究各国如何协调其国家行动计划,以打击全球贩卖儿童。由于被贩卖儿童的需求和供应在范围上都是跨国界的,可能需要国际合作来减轻跨国的外部性。我们表明专业化是国际合作的主要特征。我们还表明,专业化模式仅取决于缔约国的经济发展水平。特别是,当缔约国的经济发展水平不同时,专业化会导致国家行动计划的不对称:较贫穷国家的政府专门打击从其领土上贩运儿童的供应,而较富裕国家的政府则专门打击其领土内产生的需求。
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引用次数: 0
Using Panel Data to Exactly Estimate Income Under-Reporting by the Self Employed 使用面板数据准确估计个体户少报收入
Bonggeun Kim, J. Gibson, Chul Chung
The income of the self-employed is often assumed to be understated in economic statistics. Controversy exists about the best method for estimating the extent of under-reporting and about the resulting measures of the size of the underground economy. This paper refines a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and uses discrepancies between food shares and reported incomes of the self-employed and other households to estimate under-reporting by the self-employed. In contrast to previous studies our panel data methodology distinguishes income under-reporting from transitory income fluctuations of the self employed, and provides an exact estimate of the degree of under reporting rather than just an interval estimate. Using panel data from Korea and Russia we estimate that 38 percent of the income of self employed households in Korea and 47 percent of the income of Russian self-employed households is not reported.
在经济统计中,个体经营者的收入通常被认为被低估了。关于估计漏报程度的最佳方法以及由此产生的地下经济规模的衡量标准存在争议。本文改进了Pissarides和Weber(1989)开发的方法,并使用自雇家庭和其他家庭的食物份额和报告收入之间的差异来估计自雇家庭的低报。与以前的研究相比,我们的面板数据方法区分了自雇者的收入低报和短暂的收入波动,并提供了对低报程度的准确估计,而不仅仅是区间估计。利用韩国和俄罗斯的面板数据,我们估计韩国个体户收入的38%和俄罗斯个体户收入的47%没有报告。
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引用次数: 16
Informal Employment in Indonesia 印度尼西亚的非正式就业
S. Cuevas, Aleli Rosario, Marissa L. Barcenas, Mina Christian
The paper attempted to use the February 2007 round of Indonesia’s National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) for a comparative analysis of wages and benefits of formal and informal workers. While Sakernas was not designed for this purpose, the study explored questions in the existing survey that can be used to distinguish formal and informal workers. Because of data limitation, workers were classified as employed informally or “mixed”—a category composed of workers who cannot be identified, with precision, to be engaged in either formal or informal employment. Given this constraint, informal employment was estimated at the minimum to be at 29.1% of total employment in Indonesia. Informal employment is also highly concentrated in rural areas and is prevalent in agriculture and construction sectors. More women are likely to be informally employed than men, and women generally receive lower pay and are mostly unpaid family workers. To the extent possible the study was able to examine informal employment in Indonesia and to identify the gaps in the Sakernas questionnaire that can be addressed in future rounds of the survey for a successful comparative analysis between formal and informal workers.
本文试图利用2007年2月印度尼西亚全国劳动力调查(Sakernas)对正式工人和非正式工人的工资和福利进行比较分析。虽然Sakernas不是为此目的而设计的,但该研究探索了现有调查中可用于区分正式和非正式工人的问题。由于数据有限,工人被分类为非正式就业或“混合”就业,即不能精确地确定从事正式或非正式就业的工人。考虑到这一制约因素,估计印尼的非正规就业至少占总就业的29.1%。非正式就业也高度集中在农村地区,普遍存在于农业和建筑部门。非正式就业的妇女可能比男子多,妇女的工资一般较低,而且大多是没有报酬的家庭工人。这项研究尽可能审查了印度尼西亚的非正规就业情况,并查明了Sakernas调查表中的差距,这些差距可以在今后几轮调查中加以解决,以便成功地对正规工人和非正规工人进行比较分析。
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引用次数: 37
Defining and Estimating Underground and Informal Economies: The New Institional Economics Approach 地下经济和非正式经济的定义和评估:新的制度经济学方法
Pub Date : 1990-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(90)90081-8
E. Feige
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引用次数: 533
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