Labor Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Patterns and Trends from Household Survey Microdata* Informalidad laboral en América Latina y el Caribe: patrones y tendencias a partir de…
By Leonardo Gasparini, Leopoldo Tornarolli. 2007
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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 100 household surveys
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research
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- Informal employment: Two contested policy issues (2008, background): “Moreover, the estimated positive 24 Based on alternative definitions of informal employment, Gasparini and Tornarolli (2007) and Ernst (2008) present different trends in informal employment in Brazil.”
- Informality: Causes and Consequences for Development (2020, background): “…characteristics (e.g. Funkhouser 1996, Maloney 1999, Gong & Van Soest 2002, Pratap & Quintin 2006, Perry et al. 2007, Botelho & Ponczek 2011, Gasparini & Tornarolli 2009).5 The analysis of formal-informal wage gaps is often linked to the goal of testing for the existence of labour market…”