Labor Informality and Market Segmentation in Senegal

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions,...

Product Market Competition and Informality in Mexico

Mexico has engaged in many trade agreements that have left unaffected internal competition, being one of the most trade-opened countries in the world is also one of the most restrictive regarding product market competition. For developing countries, this is a field to study that still need to be undertaken. This paper relates informality in the Mexican labor markets outcomes with market competi...

Dual Labor Markets: A Theory of Labor Market Segmentation

Comparative analysis of labor market dynamics using Markov processes: An application to informality

Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. ...

Teen Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar

Women represent the majority of informal sector workers in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists concerning the relationship between teen fertility and the likelihood that a woman will be employed in the informal sector. Using a panel survey in Madagascar designed to capture the transition from adolesce...