Informal sector competition and firm productivity

Beltrán, Arlette

doi:10.1080/13504851.2019.1676383

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“…These results suggest that firms that face keen competition from the informal sector often value international certifications, which serve as an overpowering accoutrement for registered firms to reduce the competitive threat from the informal economy, which is in line with the literature (Levie and Autio, 2011). Contrarily, Beltrán (2020) found a negative association between informal competitions and their ability to influence firms’ overall innovation activities.…”

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Evaluating the determinative factors driving patents and foreign technologies acquisitions in Visegrád countries

Odei

Appiah²

2022

IJIS

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Purpose This paper aims to empirically examine the factors driving the acquisition of patents and foreign technologies in 2,198 firms spanning multiple industries in Visegrád countries. Design/methodology/approach To fulfil the research objectives, the authors used the binary logistic regression models for the empirical specifications to analyse the various hypotheses to ascertain the factors contributing to patents, foreign technologies and international quality certificate acquisitions in Visegrád countries. Findings The results show that technological innovations, in-house and external research and development, intense competition from the informal sector and external knowledge search positively influence firms to acquire patents, foreign technologies and international quality certificates. The study further showed that certain firm characteristics, such as size, having a board of directors, female top managers and top managers’ experience, positively influenced firms’ ability to obtain patents, foreign technologies and international quality certificates. Originality/value The authors provide new insights into understanding the factors contributing to international technological linkages in the context of transitional countries such as the Visegrád four group. The authors have shown that international technology linkages through foreign technology licences and international quality certifications are vital for innovations in transition economies.

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Evaluating the determinative factors driving patents and foreign technologies acquisitions in Visegrád countries

Odei

Appiah²

2022

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“…Regarding firm size and age, research suggests that small and mature firms, particularly those older than ten years, exhibit higher job creation rates compared to large and mature firms (Ayyagari et al 2011). Evidence indicates that informal competition has a negative impact on the productivity of firms in the formal sector (Beltrán 2020). Empirical results also demonstrate that eliminating electricity outages could lead to an increase in firm productivity (Abeberese et al 2021).…”

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Framing the change: analysing employment change, (in)adequacy, and (de)feminization in Cameroon's tertiary firms

Malah Kuete

2023

WIDER Working Paper

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“…Karlinger (2009Karlinger ( , 2014 finds macro-level evidence that increasing levels of market competition result in increases in the size of the informal economy. Amin and Okou (2020) and Beltrán (2020) find that the productivity levels of formal firms are adversely affected by competition from the informal sector. Distinguin, Rugemintwari and Tacneng (2016) and Williams and Bezeredi (2018) find similar adverse effects on the rate of growth of the sales of formal sector firms.…”

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Does Competition from the Informal Sector Reduce Tax Compliance in the Formal Sector? Evidence from Ethiopia

Yimam¹,

Asmare²,

Moore³

2023

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It is widely believed that the existence of ‘informal sector’ enterprises that visibly do not pay direct taxes reduces the willingness of owners of formal, tax-registered enterprises to pay their own taxes. We call this the adverse evasion spillover hypothesis. It is for several reasons hard to test this hypothesis, especially in this most general form. We test a more focused version, with two components. One is that the levels of tax compliance of formal firms are reduced when those firms perceive that they are adversely affected by direct economic competition from informal enterprises. The other is that these effects are especially marked for smaller formal sector firms. Two particular procedures enabled us to collect the data needed to test these hypotheses in a satisfactory way.

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Informal sector competition and firm productivity

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

Evaluating the determinative factors driving patents and foreign technologies acquisitions in Visegrád countries

Evaluating the determinative factors driving patents and foreign technologies acquisitions in Visegrád countries

Framing the change: analysing employment change, (in)adequacy, and (de)feminization in Cameroon's tertiary firms

Does Competition from the Informal Sector Reduce Tax Compliance in the Formal Sector? Evidence from Ethiopia

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