We use a matched worker-workplace dataset comprising the near universe of formal private-sector workers in Mexico to estimate the contribution of average workplace-specific wagepremia, worker-level characteristics, and assortative matching on Mexico’s...

An essential tool in the fight against poverty is the generation of decent jobs through an equitable and inclusive labor market. To achieve this, two fronts of struggle must be addressed....

Developing countries have a vast informal sector generally associated with low levels of productivity. The persistence of informality could be a response to rigidities in the labor market, associated with a...

This paper studies the factors associated with differential prices in segmented housing markets. Despite the breadth of the literature addressing this issue, a gap remains in the investigation of differential prices...

En este artículo se presenta una revisíon en la que se identifican cuatro ramas distintas de la modelación de la economía informal en la literatura, a saber: modelos duales, modelos de...

El presente capítulo se centra en un espacio geográfico específico, el Barrio Minuto de Dios. Desde una perspectiva histórica se puede observar su construcción paulatina gracias a la visión del Padre...

The effect of regulation on the proliferation of informal settlements is unclear. While stricter regulations can provide policy makers with tools for control them (welfare economic approach), they can also constitute...

El papel relegado de la mujer, a lo largo de la historia, en la vida pública y las problemáticas acentuadas para el género femenino por la pandemia de Covid-19, hacen necesario...

We study the provision of a public project that globally behaves as a public good but locally behaves as a private bad. This scenario imposes two problems: (i) finding a compensation...

We conducted an audit experiment to examine whether street vendors in Bogot´a (Colombia) exert price discrimination based on buyers’ attributes, such as gender and nationality; and based on product characteristics, such...