This paper aims at discussing the implications of informality in Brazil by presenting new evidence on value added …

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thushas been addressed in several …, heterogeneous andmultifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality inTurkey is mixed and scant … tocontribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in theTurkish labor market. Next, we …

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. Togauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extentof minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … enforcement). We do so based on two objectivesderived from popular concerns associated with an unchecked expansion of informality …

different sectors and the impact of tax changes on the extent of informality in developing countries is, however, very limited …

simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show that: (1) Trade openness … unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector, but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. (2) The productivity … when informality is repressed. (4) Repressing informality increases productivity, but at the expense of employment and …

gender-based contribution rate for formal employees, and changes in formality and informality costs. We find that the impact …

legalizing. Informality is often the doorstep of the legal system. …