informality and in wage inequality. (Copyright: Elsevier) …

heterogeneous treatment; and 3) inequality aversion and reciprocity play a role in contribution behavior in the heterogeneous …

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

against such negative shocks as ill-health. Reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and …

Although the wage distribution is central to analysing inequality issues, the provision of public services destined for … t he poor can make an essential difference in evaluating inequality in welfare rather than in income. Whereas raising … taxes to fund public services would lead to a distributional conflict along with an efficiency loss, lower informality …

informality –the size of the shadow economy—and ‘tax morale.’ …

help Mexico break out from a recent history of economic stagnation and high levels of poverty and inequality that has … protection. It also means promoting an inclusive labour market to reduce informality and increase female labour market …

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …