期刊名称：Departmental Discussion Papers / University of Glasgow, Department of Economics
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
出版社：University of Glasgow, Department of Economics
摘要：The relationship between trade liberalisation and informal activity has not
received the attention, whether theoretical or empirical, that it may deserve.
The conventional view poses that trade liberalisation 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 liberalisation, informal employment falls.
关键词：Informal Sector, Trade Liberalisation,
Cross-sectional Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Panel Analysis
