Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52106 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5579
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic activities is one of the main reasons behind high participation in informal and unregulated sectors. For economies characterized by high inequality and poverty, a useful tool for the government to pacify social unrest, is to choose a lower level of governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of lagged state domestic product, the positive impact of corruption on the size of the informal sector is nullified.
Subjects: 
informal sector
corruption
state domestic product
governance
India
JEL: 
C12
C31
D23
J21
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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