Problems and Prospects of Informal Manufacturing Sector: A Case Study of Durgapur City

Neo-Dualism: Formal-Informal-Agriculture Interactions in India

“…Another interesting point is that when all the other UNMS segments show that larger firm size has a positive impact on labour productivity, the rural self-employed UNMS shows that there is a negative relationship between the number of workers engaged in a firm and its productivity level (could be found also in Mukherjee, 2004). Instead of an inclusive growth the FS rather produces a fractured/distorted economic structure; it ensures the persistence of a fissured informality, an 'outside', most of which procreates at a precarious level and only the fortunate few are able to reap the benefits of growth.…”

Juridical and Functional Informality: From Theory to Practical Policy

“…It is less clear that these differences reflect anything but differences in the underlying skill set across informal sector participants. A consistent result in empirical studies of the nature and impact of formal-informal transactions is that these linkages are highly concentrated in the juridical part of the informal sector (Maiti, 2010;Moreno-Monroy et al, 2012;Mukherjee, 2003;Sahu, 2010). Subcontracting chains can often lead to functionally informal firms at the chain's end, and home work, the lowest link in the chain, appears to have expanded in several countries.…”