employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …-employment carries a premium in Mexico. In contrast, the upper-tier segment is marginal in South Africa, and informal workers, both …

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 …

Over the last two decades Mexico has had an open trade regime, experienced macroeconomic stability, and made … misallocate resources toward lower-productivity firms impedes Mexico from taking full advantage of its investments in the human …

Over the last two decades Mexico has had an open trade regime, experienced macroeconomic stability, and made … toward lower-productivity firms impedes Mexico from taking full advantage of its investments in the human capital of its …

We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico …: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing … Censuses, we analyze the mechanisms that drive the relationship between concentration and labor income inequality by …

by these segments of the labor market, as well as the high frequency of transitions between them. Informality is …

This article examines the intertwining relationship between informality and education-occupation mismatch (EOM) and the … consequent impact on the workers' wages. In particular, we discuss two issues - first, the relative importance of informality and … analysis reveals that although both informality and EOM are significant determinants of wages, the former is more crucial for a …