This paper documents how informal employment in Mexico is countercyclical, lags the cycle and is negatively correlated … to formal employment. This contributes to explaining why total employment in Mexico displays low cyclicality and … variability over the business cycle when compared to Canada, a developed economy with a much smaller share of informal employment …

Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is … informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …

-72, including women. In addition, minimum wage hikes are associated with an increase in informal employment. …

Informal activities impact countries'economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is … informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …