This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more … the Mexican import tariffs are significantly related to reductions in the likelihood of informality in the tradable …

We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our …

This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a … large unregulated of “informal” sector, Mexico. It finds, first, that the formal salaried sector shows the same procyclical … US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the …

-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure. The under-treatment of people with crippling mental illnesses is the … most glaring case of health inequality in our country. The need for a rethink is urgent. At present mental health care is …