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Solving the Puzzle between the Minimum Wage and (In) formal Employment: An Analysis for a Developing Economy
This paper examines the effects of the minimum wage on employment, as well as other labor market outputs such as (in)formality, inactivity and hours of work. We use a data panel from 2009 ...

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 ...

NAIRU and Informality in the Mexican Labor Market
The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) is an essential indicator for the reading of the economic cycle. However, estimation of this rateis complexsince it is not directly ...

Formal Employment is a Consequence of Skill Diversity in Cities
Why do cities with larger populations in developing countries create relatively more formal employment? We build a model where skill diversity increases with working age population size, and ...

Who pays? The distributional impacts of slowing economic growth in Latin American labor markets
After a decade of strong growth and notable poverty and inequality reduction, Latin America finds itself in a pattern of regional slowdown. What, if any, are the distributional impacts of the slowdown? We study over 6 ...

Labor flows in Venezuela 1997-2013
This paper measures worker gross flows and instantaneous transition probabilities in Venezuela from 1998 to 2013. We assemble a panel dataset, which is the source of our flow calculations. We ...

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 ...
