Informality and firm performance in Myanmar

Hanna Berkel and Finn Tarp

No wp-2020-173, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of registration with the authorities, and the third definition relates to three groupings of the informality status of a firm's workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance outcomes.

Keywords: Firms; Informality; Myanmar; Business; business registration; Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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