, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment … protection legislation. They do not benefit from wage growth either, because their bargaining power is weak. Good jobs are so few …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …

social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …