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      Labor Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Patterns and Trends from Household Survey Microdata Translated title: Informalidad laboral en América Latina y el Caribe: patrones y tendencias a partir de microdatos de encuestas de hogares

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          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.

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          Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de definiciones alternativas de informalidad laboral en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), explotando una base de datos de más de 100 encuestas de hogares en el período 1989-2005. El trabajo no encuentra evidencia empírica a favor de un patrón consistente de reducción de la informalidad laboral en la región. Independientemente de la definición usada, la informalidad continúa siendo una característica dominante de los mercados laborales en ALC. En varios países el incremento en la informalidad laboral parece estar asociado más a un importante aumento en la propensión a fjar arreglos informales en todos los sectores productivos, que a cambios en la estructura nacional de empleo hacia actividades más informales.

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                Journal
                dys
                Desarrollo y Sociedad
                Desarro. soc.
                Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia )
                0120-3584
                June 2009
                : 63
                : 13-80
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversidad Nacional de La Plata Argentina leonardo@ 123456depeco.econo.unlp.edu
                Article
                S0120-35842009000100002 S0120-3584(09)00006302
                10.13043/dys.63.1
                9a27f6d5-bba8-4f30-8f60-16667adb6560

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 18 July 2008
                : 18 March 2009
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 15, Pages: 68
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                Caribe,América Latina,empleo,informalidad,labor market,Caribbean,Latin America,employment,informality,mercado laboral

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