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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution

Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders; Bachas, Pierre - 2020

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Distributional effects of taxation in Latin America

Pessino, Carola; Rasteletti, Alejandro; Artana, Daniel A.; … - 2023

income taxes as in Latin America. High levels of evasion and informality make payroll taxes more regressive in integrated … labor markets with high informality, but make indirect taxes less regressive, since the poor pay little or no indirect taxes …

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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution

Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders - 2022

Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...

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Nature of the relationship between minimum wage and the shadow economy size : an empirical analysis for the case of Romania

Davidescu, Adriana Ana Maria; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017

informality. The results also indicated that the Romanian shadow economy decreased until 2008 to a value of approximately 27.8% of …

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The Sources of Wage Growth in a Developing Country

Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015

What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...

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Formal but less equal: Gender wage gaps in formal and informal jobs in Brazil

Ben Yahmed, Sarra - 2016

legislation. I study here how gender wage inequality differs across formal and informal jobs in Brazil. The raw gender wage gap is …

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Wage inequality and informality: Evidence from Mexico

Binelli, Chiara - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-18

, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as a case study, I show that … between 1987 and 2002 wage inequality within informal workers accounted for over 60% of total wage inequality and that the … Mexican financial crisis of the mid-1990s increased the share of informal workers and, via this, wage inequality. The results …

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Estimating the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country: A density discontinuity design approach

Jales, Hugo - 2017

This paper proposes a framework to identify the effects of the mini- mum wage on the joint distribution of sector and wage in a developing country. I show how the discontinuity of the wage distribution around the minimum wage identifies the extent of non-compliance with the minimum wage policy,...

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Informality and Productivity in Bolivia: A Gender Differentiated Empirical Analysis

Andersen, Lykke E.; Muriel, Beatriz - 2007

The urban labor market in Bolivia can be divided into 4 main sectors: 1) the public sector, 2) the formal private sector, 3) self-employed informals, and 4) informal workers. Although incomes are generally higher in the public sector and in the formal private sector, there is a strong preference...

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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings: a marginal treatment effects approach

Arias, Omar; Khamis, Melanie - 2008

informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on informality and self-employment and information on labor inspections …

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