Modeling informality formally: Households and firms

Economic Inquiry

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 821-838

  Galiani, Sebastian ^a   Weinschelbaum, Federico ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

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EID: 84863554897     PISSN: 00952583     EISSN: 14657295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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