This paper investigates the impact of Mexico's labor outsourcing partial ban on formal workers' labor market outcomes. Using longitudinal administrative data and an event-study framework, we analyze the evolution of employment and wages before and after the reform. The findings show that...

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...

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico using social security records for the period 2005-2019. We find strong evidence of deviations from normality of these distributions. Comparing the results obtained with...