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

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

economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … occasional support for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support … at all in the case of Argentina. Rather, earnings mobility is most frequently convergent or neutral in all three …

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 …

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

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 …

informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on informality and self-employment and information on labor inspections …