of informal businesses. And sample designs are shaped by a narrow and in our view misleading definition of informality as …

and Maloney’s (2006) findings for Mexico that the patternsof worker transitions between formality and informality …This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … correspond primarily to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting …

formal andinformal status. Thus we explore issues such as how informality may enable anentrepreneur to test the profitability …. Also,we show that financial constraints can interact with the option of informality to induceentry. …

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses the recent performance of the main Latin American economies (Brazil, Mexico … social tension in the final stretch of last year. Some factors, such as high labour market informality and the improvable …

informality status. We find that the gender difference in the rate of informality is present even when the sectoral composition of … contribute to the persistence of informality. …

complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …

, evidenced by ad hoc assumptions of cooperative wealth maximization. By integrating the underlying structure of inequality with …

Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries. This … explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income inequality will … initial impact of the boom on inequality disappears. Using panel cointegration methodology for a sample of 90 countries …