This article analyzes the evolution of informal employment in Peru from 1986 to 2001. Contrary to what one would expect …, the informality rates increased steadily during the 1990s despite the introduction of flexible contracting mechanisms, a …. Finally, we illustrate the negative correlation between productivity and informality by evaluating the impacts of the Youth …

unfair dismissals, which occurred in 2002 in Peru. Using data from Peruvian Household Surveys from 2004 to 2015, and the … Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this …

. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions, which cover employment protection legislation (EPL … size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality. …

This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … and Maloney’s (2006) findings for Mexico that the patterns of worker transitions between formality and informality … correspond primarily to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting …

reduces the employment level, the share of employment in the population, the hourly wage, the interindustry wage premium, and … the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … or the rest of the world (ROW) reduced the employment level, hourly wage, and share of informal employment while …

transformation. This growth has been extensively associated with more employment, higher wages, shared prosperity, and poverty … with reduced informality and an increase in hours worked, with more positive effects for female workers. …

sector are essential to account for the employment and output loss and for the decline in the informality rate. … on informal employment. We show, for most countries, a slump in aggregate employment, mirrored by a fall in labor … participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The latter is unprecedented since informality used to cushion the decline in …