This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The
database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it …

This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on global migration and
inequality. Accounting for the effects of changing temperatures, sea levels, and the …

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 …

The study aims to investigate the research field of informality from a dual perspective—
unilateral versus multilateral—in relation to Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights the …

Several new dualistic models have re-examined the causes of the informal economy and
have made testable predictions about the long-lasting role of inequality. We test these …

The issue of inflation, particularly in emerging market, continues to attract lot of attention of
economist as well as non-economists. Although there are some dissents regarding the …

Purpose The effects of government expenditure on the shadow economy have been
investigated. However, the effect from a moderating factor that affects this relationship has …

Despite a growing number of empirical works on the shadow economy and poverty, the
bidirectional causality between these two phenomena has been a relatively neglected area …

This paper revisits the effect of brain drain on development and inequality using a two-sector
model with formal and informal labor markets. Contrary to existing studies, we use a search …

On the eve of its sovereign debt crisis in 2010, Greece initiated a large fiscal consolidation
program. By 2015, official GDP had fallen to 26% below its 2009 level. We feed the actual …