We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the … exposure to informality on future earnings. We document that workers who exit formal employment experience a significant wage …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes as nonresponse is …

a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in … the level of informality. Results suggest the importance of tailored data set selection when modelling IE with MIMIC. …

wages, and declining labor informality, a confluence of factors that reduced earnings inequality. In the aftermath of the …Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …

inequality and in the incidence of labor informality, while similar changes also took place in other Latin American countries … on the relation between informality and wage inequality through a RIF-based regression decomposition analysis which …. These trends were observed in a period of strong economic dynamism. Most extended explanations for this declining inequality …

links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may increase inequality …Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … opportunities for low-skilled and deprived people. Despite this positive feedback, informality raises problems for public finances …

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …

Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade … Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output … prices can affect factor prices, this paper explores the relationship between output prices and wage inequality. The rise of …