| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16821 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16821 |
| The Unofficial Economy in Africa | |
| Rafael La Porta; Andrei Shleifer | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-02-25 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the productivity of informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) in 24 African countries using field work and World Bank firm level data. We find that productivity jumps sharply if we compare small formal firms to informal firms, and rises rapidly with the size of formal firms. Critically, informal firms appear to be qualitatively different than formal firms: they are smaller in size, produce to order, are run by managers with low human capital, do not have access to external finance, do not advertise their products, and sell to largely informal clients for cash. Informal firms thus occupy a very different market niche than formal firms do, and rarely become formal because there is very little demand for their products from the formal sector. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16821 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574496 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rafael La Porta,Andrei Shleifer. The Unofficial Economy in Africa. 2011. |
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