TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND INFORMALITY: NEW STYLIZED FACTS

Marco Fugazza () and Norbert Fiess

No 43, UNCTAD Blue Series Papers from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Abstract: The relationship between trade liberalization and informal activity has not received the attention, whether theoretical or empirical, that it may deserve. The conventional view posits that trade liberalization would cause a rise in informality. This paper uses three different data sets to assess the sign of the relationship. Empirical results provide a mixed picture. Macro-founded data tend to produce results supporting the conventional view; micro-founded data do not. Empirical results also suggest that while informal output increases with deeper trade liberalization, informal employment falls.

Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (27)

Downloads: (external link)
https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/itcdtab44_en.pdf?Repec (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
Working Paper: Trade Liberalisation and Informality: New stylized facts (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unc:blupap:43

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in UNCTAD Blue Series Papers from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Marco Fugazza ().