Entry and Stay in the Informal Economy

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dc.contributor.authorAbdallah, Gorah. K.
dc.contributor.authorEmiel, Eijdenberg L.
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-19T10:56:22Z
dc.date.available2021-08-19T10:56:22Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the factors determining the entry and stay of entrepreneurs in the informal economy in a Least Developed Country (LDC): Tanzania. Qualitative data from a focus group with six experts, and individual interviews with two experts and 15 entrepreneurs from the informal economy, were analysed. The results show that (1) necessity motivations are important for the entry and stay of entrepreneurs, as well as (2) the unattractive factors of the formal economy (e.g. degree of excessive regulations regarding high taxes)/attractive factors of the informal economy (e.g. little procedures, low capital requirements) and (3) low levels of education possessed by entrepreneurs, emerged as essential. This study enriches the literature with personal narratives of entrepreneurial activities from the micro level. Therefore, many detailed factors are revealed of the lives of entrepreneurs and experts, dealing in one way or the other with the informal economy.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tia.ac.tz/handle/123456789/12
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTanzania Institute of Accountancyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 27;No. 2
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectEntrepreneurial motivationen_US
dc.subjectEntrepreneurshipen_US
dc.titleEntry and Stay in the Informal Economyen_US
dc.title.alternativeQualitative Findings from a Least Developed Countryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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