We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … expansion of informality: tax revenue maximization, and poverty alleviation among workers. …

regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labo market and welfare effects of policies towards informality. …

promoting informality and reducing participation rates. These effects can be important enough to deserve consideration in policy …

raise to informality. …

informality may be reduced by either increasing or decreasing the payroll tax rate in the formal sector. They also show that a … universal social security benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a …

-staggered entry across municipalities of a non-contributory social program. Policy experiments show that informality may be reduced by … benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a relative fiscal cost that is …

gender-based contribution rate for formal employees, and changes in formality and informality costs. We find that the impact …