Objective. This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods. We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of...

1. Introduction: Informality in Paraguayan Context -- 2. Literature Review: The Informal Economy -- 3. Informality Measure and Models -- 4. Logistic Regression Results of In/Formality in Paraguay -- 5. Discussion of Results -- 6. Policy Recommendations and Conclusions

This research explores the competitive environment for urban formal sector firms competing against peer formal sector firms behaving informally in Central America. Explored is the upper bound of the formal-informal continuum in a regional economic environment of persistent and widespread...