This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and … Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …-employment carries a premium in Mexico. In contrast, the upper-tier segment is marginal in South Africa, and informal workers, both … small at all levels in Brazil. -- Self-employed ; salary work ; informal sector ; earnings differential ; quantile …

using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …

This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries …

with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …

Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs …

migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on …

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within … for men, those who live in ethnic enclaves. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; Mexico ; Mexican-Americans …