This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand … the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the legalistic view, and in terms of productivity view … informality. Questions related to these various concepts, social security and benefits coverage, contractual information, legal …

paper we identify the proportion of informal workers who are in each situation for the case of Mexico. Using a simple model …

participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The latter is unprecedented since informality used to cushion the decline in … sector are essential to account for the employment and output loss and for the decline in the informality rate. …

formal job. In this paper, we present an estimation of the traditional NAIRU for Mexico and an alternative measure that … includes informality as an indicator of labor underutilization. We find that both measures of NAIRU and the associated labor … informality seems to predict inflationary pressures more accurately when the unemployment gap is close to zero. …

unemployment and informality do not change substantially. The effects are greater when the initial shock increases informality in …