Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …

Occupational Information Network to explore the relevance of these four frameworks for explaining earnings inequality between 2000 …

different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of … registration with the authorities, and the third definition relates to three groupings of the informality status of a firm …'s workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance …

informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are …

different sectors and the impact of tax changes on the extent of informality in developing countries is, however, very limited …

and implicitly mistaken for lucrative tax bases. First, I critically interrogate current conceptualizations of informality … to highlight how the informality that materially affects revenue mobilization goes beyond the hitherto narrow focus on … the visible informal sectors. I then demonstrate that informality is only one among many factors negatively associated …

We examine the nature of labour market inequality in Indonesia and India, using a common conceptual approach drawing …

This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries …-Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru. We divide workers into five work statuses: formal wage-employed, formal self … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …