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 … formal employment are particularly harmful to labour formality and participation in the modern sector labour force …

US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …

first available estimates of top income shares and effective income tax rates in contemporary Chile based on analysis of …, the rich in Chile pay modest effective income tax rates. The top 1 per cent pay an average effective rate of 16-17 per …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …