The Formalisation of Women's Cooperatives and the Reduction of the Informal Economy in Jordan, Fact or Fiction?

• Autores: Herenia Gutiérrez Ponce, Julián Chamizo González, Manar Al-Mohareb
• Localización: Revista de economía mundial, ISSN 1576-0162, Nº 60, 2022, págs. 197-219
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.33776/rem.v0i60.5599
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La formalización de las cooperativas de mujeres y la reducción de la economía informal en Jordania, ¿realidad o ficción?
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    Este estudio examina la posible influencia de la formalización de cooperativas de mujeres en la economía informal de Jordania. Al mismo tiempo, para producir evidencia empírica desde una perspectiva teórica se estudia cómo afectan los desafíos cruciales de la economía informal a la formalización. Se trata de un estudio empírico tanto descriptivo como inferencial en el que se emplean varias bases de datos para extraer los datos relevantes de la muestra de 66 cooperativas de mujeres jordanas en el periodo de 2011 a 2020. Se utiliza un modelo de datos de panel dinámico para las variables de estudio con control de efectos fijos específicos. Los hallazgos indican que la política de formalización en el sector cooperativo no afecta la economía informal. Por el contrario, los desafíos afectan significativamente a la economía informal.

  • English

    This study examines the possible influence of formalising women's cooperatives on Jordan's informal economy. At the same time, to produce empirical evidence from a theoretical perspective, we study how the crucial challenges of the informal economy affect formalisation. This is an empirical study, both descriptive and inferential, in which several databases are used to extract the relevant data from the sample of 66 Jordanian women's cooperatives in the period from 2011 to 2020. A dynamic panel data model is used for the study variables with controlling for specific fixed effects. The findings indicate that the formalisation policy in the cooperative sector does not affect the informal economy. Instead, the challenges significantly affect the informal economy.

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