correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to …

, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations. We conducted a field experiment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in order to …

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …

. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual … unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector, but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. (2) The productivity … when informality is repressed. (4) Repressing informality increases productivity, but at the expense of employment and …

dependence and a difference-in-differences approach applied to household survey data from Brazil – a large emerging market where …