Objetivo: Caracterizar y analizar la situación del empleo informal respecto a su definición,
medición y clasificación, en los países de América del Sur. Métodos: A través de una …

This article examines the returns to education taking into consideration the existence of
educational mismatches in the formal and informal employment of a developing country …

Trata-se de um estudo exploratório sobre aspectos do processo de institucionalização da
categoria trabalhador por conta própria ou trabalhador autônomo (expressões utilizadas …

Informality is a defining characteristic of labour markets in developing and transition
countries. This paper analyzes patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and …

Although informality impacts countries' economic development, the recent recession may
have increased the incidence of informal activities. We take advantage of a rich data set on …

The aim of this paper is to review the various policy options, approaches and measures that
can be used to address informal entrepreneurship. To do this, it first reviews four possible …

We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena
obtaining in developing economies, and we give a diagrammatic formulation of the market …

Why do people save? A strand of the literature has emphasized the role of
'precautionary'motives; ie, private agents save in order to mitigate unexpected future income …

The informal economy a help or a hindrance to expanding the opportunities of the poor?
Conventionally, it has been deemed a hindrance; an unproductive sphere that is deleterious …

I build a business cycle labor search-and-matching model with informal labor markets, which
shows that different dimensions of institutional quality have similar effects on the size of the …