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Labor Informality in Mexico: An Indicator Analysis

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The Informal Economy in Global Perspective

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This chapter presents an analysis of labor informality in Mexico. It provides a discussion of different theoretical approaches explaining the phenomenon and performs an empirical exercise. The exercise includes a description of various labor market indicators and the estimation of a logistic equation. For the latter it considers information from the National Occupational and Employment Survey (ENOE) for the first quarter of 2015. The results suggest that the probability of becoming an informal worker decreases as individuals acquire more education or live in urban areas. Women are more likely to join the informal labor market relative to men. Searching for additional employment also increases the probability of entering informality.

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  1. Department of Economics and International Relations, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Tijuana, Mexico

    Rogelio Varela Llamas, Ramón A. Castillo Ponce & Juan Manuel Ocegueda Hernández

  2. Department of Economics and Statistics, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ramón A. Castillo Ponce

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  1. Dublin City University, School of Law and Government, Dublin, Ireland

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  2. University of Sheffield, Management School, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Colin C. Williams

  3. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Iași, Romania

    Ioana A. Horodnic

  4. Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb, Croatia

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Llamas, R.V., Ponce, R.A.C., Hernández, J.M.O. (2017). Labor Informality in Mexico: An Indicator Analysis. In: Polese, A., Williams, C., Horodnic, I., Bejakovic, P. (eds) The Informal Economy in Global Perspective. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40931-3_11

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