Luis Alberto Beccaria, Sonia Marina Filipetto, Nahuel Mura
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Abstract
There is much debate around whether labor informality reflects situations of exclusion or whether it constitutes a valuable alternative for those who work in this sector. This paper contributes to the discussion by comparing the characteristics of those who move from the formal to the informal sector with the characteristics of those who remain in formal sector jobs during the 1995-2019 period in Argentina. Multinomial choice models are used for this purpose. The influence of such movements on the variation of wages is also evaluated. Both sets of evidence reveal that the positions in the informal sector, taken as a whole, do not seem to constitute a desirable destination for those who work in the formal sector. However, there is also evidence of heterogeneity in the informal sector, since the profile of those who move to one of its segments —that of employers— is consistent with the idea of voluntariness.
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The Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad is an academic and open access journal, published each semester, that belongs to the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Sociedad (CEDE) of the School of Economics at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). The journal seeks to disseminate the investigations and academic projects develop at Universities and Research Centers, at a national and international level; it is addressed to economists and researchers of related fields. The special editions are selected aiming to choose topics highly relevant to the area of Economy. The call for papers is permanently open.