out in Barranquilla, Colombia, in order to investigate whether corruption and informality are complements or substitutes …We present results of a qualitative study based on interviews with informal vendors and experts on informality carried … relation with informality, as the results can be opposite. In Barranquilla, bureaucratic corruption and informality seem to be …

social protection reforms would bring about in terms of reduced labor distortions. We find that workers in Colombia … expected from very high labor costs, but we quantify an implicit formality tax and informality subsidy ranging between 2 and 27 … percent of different representative workers’ earnings. Critically, the long-discussed reforms in Colombia – including the …

in Colombia by using a non-parametric method proposed by Ñopo (2008a). Over a rich dataset at a household level during …

in explaining the difference between Colombia and countries with significantly lower informality. We use the model to …Labor market informality is a pervasive feature of most developing economies. Motivated by the empirical regularity … that the labor informality rate falls with GDP per capita, both at business cycle frequency and in a cross-section of …

study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition, informality has decreased in the former sector and increased in the latter. This change in labor … informality is mainly observed among unskilled workers. The informality of workers with high-school diplomas is not affected by …