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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality [PDF]

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011
Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it attractive to be a formal employee. We show that, in locations with frequent inspections, workers pay for mandated benefits by receiving lower wages. Wage rigidity
Almeida, Rita, Carniero, Pedro
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Information Cascades in the Labor Market [PDF]

Journal of Economics, 2001
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Kübler, Dorothea, Weizsäcker, Georg
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Informalidad laboral, crecimiento económico y gasto público en México, 2005-2019

Ensayos Revista de Economía, 2023
La informalidad laboral se ha vuelto un tema recurrente en la literatura sobre mercados laborales, sobre todo por su persistencia en países en vías de desarrollo.
Rogelio Varela LLamas, Ricardo Rodolfo Retamoza Yocupicio   +1 more
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Informality in the time of COVID-19 in Latin America: Implications and policy options.

PLoS ONE, 2021
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the labor market in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic. After a decade of a virtuous circle of growth with the creation of formal jobs, the pandemic has had an considerable impact on the region's labor market ...
Ivonne Acevedo, Francesca Castellani, Giulia Lotti, Miguel Székely   +3 more
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Labor and informal work in North-South relations: A study on Iberian countries and Latin-America

Tempo Social, 2021
Departing from the North/South dialogue, and considering the historical relations between the Iberian countries and Latin America (LA), the aim is to analyze trends, contrasts and asymmetries in different scales.
Elísio Estanque, Víctor F. Climent
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Determinants of Labor Productivity in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Pre- and Post-Financial Crisis Mexico

Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, 2018
Although the global financial crisis of 2008 had tremendous effects on global businesses, its impact on firm performance in emerging markets is unknown.
Young-Hee Kang, Kyunga Na
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Employment and taxes in Latin America: An empirical study of the effects of payroll, corporate income and value-added taxes on labor outcomes

Cuadernos de Economía, 2016
This paper empirically explores the effects of payroll taxes, value-added taxes and corporate income taxes on a variety of labor market outcomes such as participation, employment, informality, and wages.
Eduardo Lora, Johanna Fajardo-González
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The informal sector on labor income of Paraguay. 2018

Población y Desarrollo, 2020
This study evaluates the impact that is generated on labor income from working in the informal sector. Those who are working in a dependency relationship and who are not contributing to a retirement or pension system and those independent workers who are
Jorge Garicoche Centurión
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Informalidade no mercado de trabalho brasileiro: uma resenha da literatura Brazilian labor market informality: a review of the literature

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2006
The economic literature relative to Brazilian labor market informality is very disperse and presents a significant lack of organization. In that sense, the purpose of this paper is to organize and discuss on a systematic way the main pieces of literature
Gabriel Ulyssea
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data [PDF]

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research.
Kan, Elif Oznur, Tansel, Aysit
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