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on Informal and Underground Economics |
| By: | International Finance Corporation |
| Keywords: | Social Protections and Labor-Employment and Unemployment Social Protections and Labor-Wages, Compensation & Benefits Poverty Reduction-Access of Poor to Social Services Social Protections and Labor-Work & Working Conditions |
| Date: | 2023–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:40725 |
| By: | International Finance Corporation |
| Keywords: | Social Protections and Labor-Wages, Compensation & Benefits Industry-Cottage Industry Social Protections and Labor-Work & Working Conditions |
| Date: | 2023–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:40723 |
| By: | Yashodhan Ghorpade; Amanina Abdur Rahman; Alyssa Farha Jasmin; Natalie Fang Ling Cheng; Soonhwa Yi |
| Keywords: | Social Protections and Labor-Employment and Unemployment |
| Date: | 2024–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:41124 |
| By: | Leoni Alewell; Pia Heckl |
| Abstract: | Key MessagesIncreased globalization has led to major transformations of labor markets in developed and developing countries.Analyses focusing on aggregate effects of increased import competition and ignoring the structure of the labor market miss important developments.Higher exposure to import competition affects male and female workers in Mexico differently.Displaced workers partly move into informal employment which attenuates negative employment effects.Entrance into the labor market through informal work in periods of lower la-bor demand can lay the foundation for the inclusion of women in the labor force. |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:econpb:_69 |
| By: | Darwin Cortés; Andrés Gallegos-Vargas; Jorge Pérez Pérez |
| Abstract: | We analyze the effect of adverse health shocks on households' expenditure shares in different good categories using a fixed-effects approach and a structural approach based on microeconomic theory. We find that, on average, households substitute health and food expenditure in response to adverse health shocks. Our estimates unveil substantial heterogeneity in this trade-off mediated by access to social protection, job contract type, and urban or rural location. Households from rural areas --where household heads are more likely to hold informal jobs and lack access to safety nets-- engage in more substitution of food expenditure for health expenditure than others. Our findings suggest that access to formal employment and a higher quality of local institutions can help mitigate the negative consequences of health shocks for households. |
| Keywords: | Health shocks;household expenditure;informal labor;urban-rural |
| JEL: | D12 I15 J46 |
| Date: | 2025–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bdm:wpaper:2025-03 |