Sectoral selection and informality: A Nicaraguan case study

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 541-556

  Pisani, Michael J ^a   Pagán, José A ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMAL SECTOR; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NICARAGUA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8644272391     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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