Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation …’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in reducing informality in the long term. Higher-skilled workers are typically … informality. …

closely reproduces the decline in informality observed between 2003 and 2012. The change in the composition of the labor force … the effectiveness of a progressive payroll tax in reducing informality. …

bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the …

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil … study estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and Brazilian … wage are summarized in a ?menu? of minimum wage variables and used to estimate wage and employment effects. (2) An …

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of … the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many … to represent the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage on wages or employment. Second, different minimum wage …

employment effects, accounting for sorting into the formal and informal sectors. The data used is a monthly Brazilian household … survey from 1982 to 2000 at individual and regional levels. The formal and informal sectors employment effects were both … sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally. …

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …

direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical … wage and employment. This paper estimates the employment effect of the minimum wage using a number of political variables … indicate that an increase in the minimum wage has very small adverse effects on employment. …

effects between the formal and shadow sectors in the aftermath of the increase in the minimum wage. Using data on Brazil, we …