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Using a special module of the 2015 Mexican Labour Force Survey with information on workers' preferences for jobs with social security coverage, I estimate that 80 per cent of informal workers in large urban areas would prefer to work in a job that provides them with such coverage. The estimation...
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Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers' incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
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Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …
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rest of manufacturing towards informal small-scale firms. When informality is high, industry could adapt to carbon taxes by … numerical experiments, two CGE models calibrated for Argentina and Mexico are used. The 'domestic leakage' is found to be more … relevant for Argentina than for Mexico. …
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, 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 …
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This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand … the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the legalistic view, and in terms of productivity view … informality. Questions related to these various concepts, social security and benefits coverage, contractual information, legal …
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stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …
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paper we identify the proportion of informal workers who are in each situation for the case of Mexico. Using a simple model …
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We estimate that about 10.6 percent of jobs could be done from home in Mexico, using 468 4-digit SINCO occupations and …
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