Labor Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Patterns and Trends from Household Survey Microdata

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ID6166608
AuthorsLeonardo Gasparini (0000-0002-2264-8399), Leopoldo Tornarolli (0000-0001-7504-6853)
Year2009
Issue63
Pages13-80
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Desarrollo y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0120-3584 • E-ISSN: 1900-7760
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.13043/dys.63.1
OpenAlexW1520038963
LanguageEN
Citations received45

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 covering the period 1989-2005. The evidence suggests that there are no signs of a consistent pattern of reduction in labor informality in the region. Regardless of the definition used, labor informality remains a pervasive characteristic of labor markets in LAC. In several countries the increase in labor informality seems to have been associated more to a sizeable increase in the propensity to set informal arrangements within groups, than to changes in the national employment structure toward more informal sectors

Census · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Informal sector · Labour economics · Latin Americans · Microdata (statistics · Political science · Population · Sociology · Survey data collection · Demography · Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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