Informality and poverty in Ecuador

Carla Canelas ()
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Carla Canelas: Université Paris 1

Small Business Economics, 2019, vol. 53, issue 4, No 14, 1097-1115

Abstract: Abstract This paper uses national representative data from the Ecuadorian Family Expenditure survey to study the determinants of poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the two-way relationship between these two phenomena. The main contribution of this paper is to present new empirical evidence on this relationship for a developing country where more than 60% of workers are in the informal sector. The results support the view of a heterogeneous informal market, in which informal work is both a demand-led phenomenon and a voluntary and primarily supply-led form of employment.

Keywords: Informality; Self-employment; Poverty; Developing economy; Ecuador (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E26 I32 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-018-0102-9

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