Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can …

rollout of SP across municipalities in a differences-indifferences approach, and find an increase in informality of 4% among …

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. …

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

informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …

in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …

regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labo market and welfare effects of policies towards informality. …

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can …