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. …

occupations- part-time work, self-employment, and labour informality-needed for family-work balance. Furthermore, countries with …

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. …

-exogenous changes in industry-level real exchange rates to explore the likelihood of informality across employers exposed to varying …

simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show that: (1) Trade openness … unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector, but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. (2) The productivity … when informality is repressed. (4) Repressing informality increases productivity, but at the expense of employment and …