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Informal labor markets in times of pandemic: evidence for Latin America and policy options

Leyva, Gustavo; Urrutia, Carlos - 2021

participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The latter is unprecedented since informality used to cushion the decline in … sector are essential to account for the employment and output loss and for the decline in the informality rate. …

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Informality and segmentation in the Mexican labor market

Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2015

In developing countries, some workers have formal jobs while others are occupied in informal positions. One view regarding this duality suggests that sectors are segmented, which means that a worker in the informal sector identical to another in the formal sector cannot get a formal position due...

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Cross-subsidies, and the elasticity of informality to social expenditures

Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Leal, Julio - 2014

frictions model with informality, (ex post) heterogeneous workers, and conditional taxes and transfers. In the model, formal … informality is quite inelastic due to frictions, and due to the opposing forces of taxes and transfers. …

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How high (low) are the possibilities of teleworking in Mexico?

Leyva, Gustavo; Mora, Israel - 2021

We estimate that about 10.6 percent of jobs could be done from home in Mexico, using 468 4-digit SINCO occupations and employment data in 2019. This is roughly half the estimate reported by Dingel and Neiman (2020) using teleworking criteria devised for the U.S. labor market. Owing to the...

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Informality, labor regulation, and the business cycle

Leyva, Gustavo; Urrutia, Carlos - 2018

We analyze the joint impact of employment protection and informality on macroeconomic volatility and the propagation of … particular to business cycle moments for employment and informality obtained from our own calculations with the ENOE survey for … formal sector, are key to obtain a counter-cyclical informality rate. In our model both the economy without an informal …

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Infrastructure accumulation in developing countries : the role of the informal sector

Addessi, William; Delogu, Marco - 2021 - Prima edizione

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Patterns of total factor productivity growth in Mexico : 1991-2011

Ramos, Luis Fernando Colunga; Torre Cepeda, Leonardo Egidio - 2015

We review some patterns of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the Mexican economy during the period 1991-2011 using the KLEMS data set published by INEGI in 2013. The data shows a strong positive correlation between TFP and output growth. As a result, tests were performed in order to...

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An analysis of the process of disinflationary structural change : the case of Mexico

Vaughan, Daniel - 2013

I study the diffusion process of permanent disinflationary shocks in the Mexican economy using disaggregated price data for 283 goods across 46 cities in the period 1995-2012. I first show that the distribution of shocks shows considerable heterogeneity, with more than 80% of all cases having...

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Automation technologies and employment at risk : the case of Mexico

Cebreros, Alfonso; Heffner-Rodríguez, Aldo; Livas, René; … - 2020

Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...

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Increasing the cost of informal workers: evidence from Mexico

Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda; Fernández Bujanda, León - 2020

This paper estimates the effects of increasing the cost of informal jobs on formal firms' and workers' outcomes. We create novel datasets combining administrative records and household surveys data, and exploit exogenous variation in this cost generated by over 480,000 random work-site...

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