This article analyzes informal labor in Colombia in recent years. Starting from discussing the concept of informal labor in structuralism theory and institutionalism theory, the empirical strategies applied to the Colombian case are analyzed. Because informal labor has been related to the...

We estimate wage differentials across different sectors of the Mexican economy. The results suggest that the wage differential between the formal and informal sectors is significant and larger than the differential between industry and services. The findings suggest that significant differences...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo examina la relación entre el potencial de mercado y los salarios de los trabajadores manufactureros en las entidades federativas de México, utilizando un modelo estándar de Nueva Geografía Económica (NGE). En la evaluación se considera un aspecto relevante...

This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 - 2005. A set of results are presented in order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important distributive effects were hidden by the apparent observed...

Spanish abstract: Este documento tiene como objetivo orientar la política productiva con base en evidencia empírica sobre desempeño de las empresas privadas en Argentina. Siguiendo las recomendaciones metodológicas de Eurostat y la OCDE, el documento integra conjuntos de datos de registros...