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Panel : Economic development, inclusive growth and informality
Durante el 28 y 29 de mayo la Universidad del Rosario fue epicentro de trascendentales debates sobre la economía informal en el país, congregando reconocidos académicos y miembros de sectores financieros gubernamentales y ...

Informality and segmentation : evidence from a self-selection model with entry barriers to formal employment in Peru
The academic debate about informality has discussed whether this implies a segmented labor market, a competitive one or a mixed of both. Recent research has employed various empirical models ...

Optimal Taxation in an Informal Economy
Informality is a widespread phenomenon in developing economies with negativeconsequences on productivity and inequality. Several policies have been implementedto decrease informality such as decreasing ...

Social assistance and informality: Examining the Link in Colombia
This paper presents evidence on the labor market effects of social assistance programs in the short and medium run. We evaluate the impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program “Familias ...

The Informal sector and economic transformation in India
In the literature on development and modernization, it has been expected that with economic growth and a consequent increase in per capita income, the dualism between the formal and informal ...

Bank Account Ownership by Micro-entrepreneurs in Mexico
This paper evaluates the impact of a VAT rate increase on bank account ownershipby Mexican micro-entrepreneurs considering informality as the main channel of this effect. Using two rounds of a ...

Differences in efficiency between formal and informal micro-firms in Mexico
Micro firmscan be seen as potential growth drivers, as they are usually related to entrepreneurship, a relatively high share of micro firms can also be a sign of an underdeveloped productive ...

Optimal Monetary policy with Informality: A Benchmark Framework
Our paper aims at unveiling how much the monetary policy shall deviate from the zero-inflation allocation in an economy with a large informal sector. A first insight is thatinformality amplifies ...

Strict Duality and Overlapping Productivity Distributions between Formal and Informal Firms
This paper develops a multi-industry general equilibrium model where en-trepreneurs within each industry can decide to operate formally or informally.The model yields a rich set of predictions ...

Effects of pension benefits on pre-retirement labor supply: Evidence from Chile
This paper describes the effects of pension benefits on pre-retirement labor supplyfor a representative sample of Chilean workers. Using non-linearities in benefits and areform that changed ...
