This article reviews the economic literature on informality, its causes, and its consequences
for development. It covers a comprehensive body of research that ranges from well-identified …

This chapter reviews a recent body of theoretical and empirical work that studies the
normative and positive aspects of trade policy. We start by presenting reduced-form …

We study the evolution of trade liberalization's effects on Brazilian local labor markets.
Regions facing larger tariff cuts experienced prolonged declines in formal sector …

We estimate the short-and long-run labor market impacts of parenthood in a develo**
country, Chile, based on an event-study approach around the birth of the first child. We find …

Increases in the minimum wage can substantially reduce earnings inequality. To
demonstrate this, we combine administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of …

This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes
inequality and poverty through its influence on earnings and employment opportunities …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the
1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to …

We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and
imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector …

I estimate the effect of trade on local labor market concentration and the consequences
thereof to wages using a sufficient statistics approach, employer-employee linked data, and …

We study the effect of robots on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, the major
robot users in Latin America, during the period 2004–2016. We exploit spatial and time …