Regulatory governance and the informal economy: cross-national comparisons
Regulatory governance and the informal economy: cross-national comparisons
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监管治理和非正规经济：跨国比较
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2010
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B. Kus
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本文探讨了许多国家宏观层面的国家监管与非正规经济之间的关系。分析表明（a）各国拥有不同类型的监管环境——因国家对经济活动的监管程度以及国家实施和执行现有法规的程度而异——以及（b）这种差异有助于解释为什么一些国家比其他国家拥有更多的非正规经济活动。研究结果还表明，(c)与过去几十年来新自由主义正统观念所规定的相反，减少国家对经济的监管程度并不一定会使经济正规化。只有在执法有效的国家，监管程度似乎与非正规经济规模有显着关联。如果情况并非如此（如许多发展中国家），放松管制政策可能会对经济正规化产生反作用。
This article examines the relationship between state regulation and the informal economy at the macro-level across a broad set of countries. The analysis shows (a) that countries have different types of regulatory environments - varying by the degree of state regulation of economic activity - and the degree to which the state implements and enforces the existing regulations - and (b) that this variation helps explain why some nations have more informal economic activity than others. The findings also suggest that (c) contrary to what the neoliberal orthodoxy has prescribed over the past few decades, decreasing the degree of state regulation in the economy will not necessarily formalize the economy. The degree of regulation seems to have a significant association with the size of the informal economy only in nations with effective law enforcement. Where this is not the case - as in many developing nations - deregulatory policies are likely to be counter-productive in formalizing the economy.