Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey.



Table 1: Informality

View

Dualism

Markets

Processes/Goods/Services

Linkages

Productive

scale

product

legal

Dualist

legalistic

wage

labour

illegal

structuralist

evasion

credit

legalistic

Table 2: Views for the informal economy from Table 1 in Chen (2007)

The old view: ILO 1972

The new view: ILO 2002

traditional economy that will disappear

here to stay and expand

only marginally productive
separate from formal economy
represents a reserve pool of surplus labour
street traders and small-scale producers
entrepreneurs who avoid taxes/regulations

contributes significantly to GDP
linked with formal economy
inf. due to less formal jobs or informalization
wide range of informal occupations
wage workers, entrepreneurs and self-empl.

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