Poverty and informality in Ecuador

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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 simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena. The results support the view of a heterogeneous informal market, where informal work is both a demand-led phenomenon as well as a voluntary and primarily supply-led form of employment. As such, informal salaried work and self-employment are both a last resort option for low-skilled workers and a voluntary choice for the more educated and entrepreneurial ones.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-001-0
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/112

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Informal Labor Markets
• Thema: informality ; poverty ; developing economy

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Canelas, Carla
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/001-0
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/129478
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ