paper aims at establishing a link between the theories on informality and marginalization which is another important issue … causal reciprocity between informality, marginalization and economic exclusion. The paper closes with a brief overview of … for every actor to participate either in the formal, the informal or in both economies. Informality has multiple sources …

paper aims at establishing a link between the theories on informality and marginalization which is another important issue … causal reciprocity between informality, marginalization and economic exclusion. The paper closes with a brief overview of … for every actor to participate either in the formal, the informal or in both economies. Informality has multiple sources …

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …

This paper considers the idea of informality in market exchange, as introduced into the economic development literature …

This paper considers the idea of informality in market exchange, as introduced into the economic development literature …

a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in … the level of informality. Results suggest the importance of tailored data set selection when modelling IE with MIMIC. …

closely reproduces the decline in informality observed between 2003 and 2012. The change in the composition of the labor force … the effectiveness of a progressive payroll tax in reducing informality. …

literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as … equality between the two states, cautioning against aggregating them in a common "informality state." The parametric model …