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 …

initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment … informal wage employment, and formal and informal entrepreneurship may all coexist. We illustrate the model by an example … labour market policies. To diminish informality, cutting the costs of formality is more effective than raising those of …

implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried … the detrimental impacts of informality on casual workers. Experimental interventions could be tried along the lines of …

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