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Economic Growth and Development : A Dynamic Dual Economy Approach

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This textbook is an introduction to the newer features of growth theory that are particularly useful in examining the issues of economic development. Growth theory provides a rich and versatile analytical framework through which fundamental questions about economic development can be examined....

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Rural-urban migration at high urbanization levels

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Revisiting the Informal Sector : A General Equilibrium Approach

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We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...

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Informal employment and business cycles in emerging economies : the case of Mexico

Fernández, Andrés; Meza, Felipe - 2014

This paper documents how informal employment in Mexico is countercyclical, lags the cycle and is negatively correlated … to formal employment. This contributes to explaining why total employment in Mexico displays low cyclicality and … formal and informal labor markets, and the model is calibrated to Mexico. The model performs well in terms of matching …

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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011

Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers’ incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...

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