informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …

This article examines the intertwining relationship between informality and education-occupation mismatch (EOM) and the … consequent impact on the workers' wages. In particular, we discuss two issues - first, the relative importance of informality and … analysis reveals that although both informality and EOM are significant determinants of wages, the former is more crucial for a …

their peers in middle age (30-49), to be employed in 1998 than in 1988 (before the first reform). While informality has … affected all age groups, the 30 to 49 years old were the category that experienced the most rapid increase in informality as …