scholarly journals The Urban Informal Sector and Poverty: Effects of Trade Reform and Capital Mobility in India

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sugata Marjit ◽  
Saibal Kar
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Trade Reform ◽  
Urban Informal Sector

ON-THE-JOB SEARCH, URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES — A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (02) ◽  
pp. 401-410
Author(s):  
TITAS KUMAR BANDOPADHYAY
Keyword(s):  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
Subsidy Policy ◽  
Urban Unemployment ◽  
Price Subsidy ◽  
Urban Informal Sector

The purpose of this paper is to examine Field's (1989) proposition in a multisector general equilibrium model with imperfect capital mobility. The effects of different fiscal policies on the equilibrium rate of urban unemployment are also examined. The main findings are (i) more efficient on-the-job search from the rural sector raises equilibrium urban unemployment rate whereas (ii) increased job search efficiency from the urban informal sector lowers this rate. Aditionally, (iii) urban price subsidy policy lowers the equilibrium urban unemployment rate, and (iv) rural subsidy policy raises this rate.

Urban informal sector and poverty

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saibal Kar ◽  
Sugata Marjit
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Urban Informal Sector

Entrepreneurship in the Urban Informal Sector: A Survey

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
G. Subrahmanyam ◽  
C.S. Venkata Ratnam ◽  
R. Satya Raju
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Urban Informal Sector

scholarly journals Welfare Analysis in an Extended Harris-Todaro Model: An Application of the Atkinson Theorem

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hautahi Kingi
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Welfare Analysis ◽  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Direct Application ◽  
Modern Sector ◽  
Schur Concave ◽  
Urban Informal Sector

AbstractI analyze the welfare effects of a policy of modern sector enlargement (MSENL), and a policy of increasing the efficiency of on-the-job search from the urban informal sector (IEOS) in a generalized Harris-Todaro model. I show that MSENL causes a Lorenz worsening of the income distribution and IEOS causes a Lorenz improvement. In a rare direct application of the Atkinson theorem, I conclude that MSENL decreases social welfare and IEOS increases social welfare for all anonymous, increasing and Schur-concave social welfare functions.

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