informality amongst self-employed men and women. In addition, the paper examines the response of informality propensities to the …

, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as a case study, I show that … provide supportive evidence that in Mexico higher wage dispersion is one of the channels through which informality negatively …

developing countries advance their development objectives, even where enforcement capacity is weak and informality is pervasive. …

. High levels of informality have impacts on the benefits that workers receive, especially their pension benefits. I use …

Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation …’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in reducing informality in the long term. Higher-skilled workers are typically … informality. …

legalizing. Informality is often the doorstep of the legal system. …

Despite rapid economic growth in recent decades, informality remains a persistent phenomenon in the labor markets of … many low- and middle-income countries. A key issue in this regard concerns the extent to which informality itself is a … heterogeneity in the transition patterns observed for workers in upper-tier versus lower-tier informality. Given the limited …