The Efficiency of the Informal Sector on the Search and Matching Framework

Borradores de Economia
Número: 
832
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
H21, J64, J65
Palabras clave: 
efficiency, Informal Sector, Hidden Search Effort

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