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 …

. Particularly, we examine the impact of ICT adoption on changing values of exchange traded funds in Brazil and Mexico, comparing it … fast development of exchange traded funds in Mexico and in the United States, measured by increases in assets under … management. Moreover, in the period 2002-2012 Mexico has caught up with the United States in terms of ETFs share in total …