This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more … the Mexican import tariffs are significantly related to reductions in the likelihood of informality in the tradable …

rural-urban wage inequality in the formal and informal sector is determined by diff erences in observable human capital. In …

in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …

facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid‐1990s …, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector. Higher‐order moments of …

The Indonesian labour market is characterised by widespread informality. To some extent, these outcomes can be … incidence of informality in urban areas are estimated separately by fixed effects and jointly by a seemingly unrelated …

This paper documents the main patterns and trends of alternative definitions of labor informality in Latin America and … evidence suggests that there are no signs of a consistent pattern of reduction in labor informality in the region. Regardless … of the definition used, labor informality remains a pervasive characteristic of labor markets in LAC. In several …