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Mixed marriage, citizenship and the policing of intimacy in contemporary France

Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu - 2013

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399078

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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The informal sector in contemporary models of the aggregate economy

Leal, Julio - 2014

affected by the presence of informality and how such distortions have an impact on aggregate variables. The authors in this … informality that is increasing with firm size: reducing informality entails a tradeoff because there are some distortions … show that, in general, reducing informality brings gains. In conclusion, substantial progress has been made in …

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Observando la evolución del sector informal desde el espacio: un enfoque municipal 2013-2020

Rangel González, Erick; Llamosas-Rosas, Irving - 2021

This document presents an alternative to measure informal economic activity at the municipal level for the 2013-2020 period in Mexico. Using satellite images of nightlight and microdata from the 2019 Economic Census, the formal and informal Value Added at the municipal level is estimated using a...

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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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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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The NAIRU and informality in the Mexican labor market

Aguilar-Argaez, Ana María; Alcaraz, Carlo; Ramírez, … - 2020

includes informality as an indicator of labor underutilization. We find that both measures of NAIRU and the associated labor … informality seems to predict inflationary pressures more accurately when the unemployment gap is close to zero. …

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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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Does informality hinder financial development convergence?

Sever, Can; Yucel, Emekcan - 2021

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