If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate
economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: what determines their …

This paper documents the main patterns and trends of alternative definitions of labor
informality in Latin America and the Caribbean, by exploiting a large database of more than …

In developing nations, formal workers tend to be more experienced, more educated, and
earn more than informal workers. These facts are often interpreted as evidence that low-skill …

Based on unique panel data consisting of both formal and informal firms, this paper uses a
matched double difference approach to examine the relationship between legal status and …

We test the hypothesis that observably similar workers earn higher wages in the formal
sector than in the informal sector in developing nations. Using data from Argentina's …

Standard models of labor supply predict that unearned income decreases labor supply. We
propose an alternative noncooperative household model in which a woman's unearned …

We analyze wage differentials and transitions between the formal and informal sectors in
urban Mexico. We use panel data on five quarterly waves from Mexico's Urban Employment …

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the
formal sector, working in the informal sector, and not working. A dynamic multinomial logit …

Recent debate on the reasons for the informal sector has led to renewed focus on how to
operationalize the measurement of informal employment. This paper investigates …

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 …