LAC’s increasing degree of informalization (documented in the region's FY00 flagship report "Securing our Future") is viewed by many with concern as representing a degradation of job quality. Informal micro-enterprises account for nearly half the urban jobs in the region, and typically provide employment for the poorer segments of the population. Here are some of the Regional Studies in this area.
 Informality Revisited by W. F. Maloney. Forthcoming in World Development, (2003) PDF
"Estimating the Effect of Formality as a Treatment on Micro-Firms" by P. Fajnzylberg, W.F. Maloney and G. Montes (2003) PDF
"LDC Micro Firm Dynamics: How Similar are they to those in the Industrialized World? Evidence from Mexico" by P. Fajnzylberg, W.F. Maloney and G. Montes (2003) PDF
"How we work: Job quality in emerging sectors" in Chapter 5:From Natural Resources to the Knowledge Economy (2002)..PDF............
"Exchange Rate Appreciation, Labor Market Rigidities, and Informality" by W. F. Maloney, N. Fiess and M. Fugazza. Policy Research Working Paper 2771 (2002) PDF
"Heterogeneity among Mexico's Microenterprises: An Application of Factor and Cluster Analysis" in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol 50 October (2001) PDF
Measuring Vulnerability: Who Suffered in the 1995 Mexican Crisis? by W. F. Maloney, W. Cunningham and M. Bosch, Paper available, (2000) PDF
"Self-employment and Labor Turnover in Developing Countries" by W. F. Maloney. World Bank Economists' Forum (2314K Imaging).
"Does Informality Imply Segementation in Urban Labor Markets? Evidence from Sectoral Transitions in Mexico" World Bank Economic Review 13, 275-302, (1999) PDF.
"The Informal Sector, Institutional Participation, and Micro-firm Dynamics" by W. F. Maloney, A. Levenson and G. Ventura (1998) PDF |
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