The paper draws on recent evidence––economic, sociological and anthropological––from
Latin America to forward a view of the informal sector in developing countries primarily as an …

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on
entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in …

Recent cross‐section studies have demonstrated a strong link between measures of
corruption, bureaucratic quality, property rights, and other institutional variables, and …

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 …

This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed
Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic …

This paper presents theory and evidence on the determinants of the size of the informal
sector. We propose a simple theoretical model in which it is positively related to income …

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 …

Abstract The recent Universal Child Allowance program in Argentina provides monthly cash
transfers to unregistered workers with children. As the program is accessible only to those …

We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution
using panel data from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. We control for time-invariant …

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs
and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks …