Labor legislation and the size of informal sector in Brazil

This paper studies the increase in the rate of informal workers in the Brazilian economy that occurred between 1985 and 1999. We develop an overlapping generations model with incomplete markets in which agents are ex-post heterogeneous. We calibrate it to match some features of the Brazilian economy for 1985. We conduct a policy experiment which reproduces the 1988 constitution reforms that increased the retirement benefits and labor costs in the formal sector. We show that these reforms can explain the increase in informal labor. Then, we conduct a policy experiment and analyze its impact on the Brazilian economy.

Feminization of the informal sector in Latin America and the Caribbean?

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A gender-based approach to the urban informal sector: the case of Mexico

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Some thoughts on the definition of the informal sector

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The informal sector and poverty in Latin America

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Rentabilidad económica de la educación en México: comparación entre el sector urbano y el rural

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Informal-formal sector interrelationships

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Evaluation report: national advocacy workshop on the measurement of the informal sector and informal employment

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Report on the national advocacy workshop on the measurement of the informal sector and informal employment

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Evaluation report: regional workshop on informal sector surveys in the Caribbean's subregion

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Central Statistical Office in Saint Lucia convened a two-day Regional Workshop on Informal Sector Surveys for the Caribbean Subregion from 12 – 13 October 2009 in Castries, Saint Lucia. This workshop was one of the culminating activities of the United Nations Statistical Division-commissioned project Measurement of the Informal Sector and Informal Employment being conducted in the subregion since 2007. It was aimed primarily at disseminating the results of a 1-2 survey of the informal sector which was carried out in Saint Lucia over the period April 2008 to January 2009.

Regional workshop on informal sector surveys in the Caribbean subregion

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, with support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Central Statistics Office in Saint Lucia, convened a two-day Data Dissemination Workshop on the Informal Sector and Informal Employment on 12 -13 October 2009 in Castries, Saint Lucia. This workshop was one of the culminating activities of the Interregional Project on the Measurement of the Informal Sector and Informal Employment being conducted in the Caribbean subregion. The workshop served as a forum for presenting the findings of the survey of the informal sector which was carried out in Saint Lucia over the period April 2008 to January 2009.

Centralidade urbana e comércio informal: os novos espaços de consumo no centro de Anápolis-GO

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Mercado informal del suelo urbano en Córdoba

El presente artículo se basa en los primeros resultados de un proyecto de investigación, cuyo objetivo general es caracterizar los procesos económicos, legales, urbanos y sociales que se llevan adelante, y los productos que se obtienen a partir de la acción de las familias, en el mercado informal de suelo urbano de la ciudad de Córdoba. La importancia de este proyecto, radica en que la fuente de información esencial, surge de entrevistas cualitativas a ocupantes de villas y asentamientos.