/self-employed sector sizes and the real exchange rate. Model predictions are then tested empirically for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and … Mexico. We confirm episodes where the expansion of informal self-employment is consistent with the traditional segmentation …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico … impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …

We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico … associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not …