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      ¿Más escolaridad, menos informalidad? Un análisis de cohortes para México y América Latina Translated title: More Schooling, Less Informality? A Cohort Analysis for Mexico and Latin America

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          Resumen: ¿Cuál es la relación entre escolaridad e informalidad laboral? Con las encuestas de hogares de México y otros 17 países de América Latina, separamos la evolución de la tasa de informalidad laboral en tres efectos: i) diferencias en los años de escolaridad de sucesivas generaciones de trabajadores, ii) tránsitos entre formalidad e informalidad durante el ciclo de vida laboral de cada generación, y iii) características del mercado de trabajo. Encontramos que en América Latina se ha observado una ligera reducción de la informalidad, asociada fundamentalmente al primer efecto: generaciones más recientes de trabajadores con más escolaridad experimentan menores tasas de informalidad que las anteriores. En el caso de México, también observamos que generaciones más recientes de trabajadores tienen más años de escolaridad que las previas; sin embargo, este efecto ha sido contrarrestado por el mercado laboral. Así, a pesar de que en México se han observado mayores avances en años de escolaridad que en el promedio de América Latina, el progreso para reducir la informalidad laboral ha sido nulo.

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          Abstract: What is the relation between schooling progress and informal employment? Using household surveys from Mexico and 17 other Latin American countries, we separate the trend in the rate of informal employment into three effects: i) differences in years of education of successive generations of workers; ii) transitions between formality and informality during the working life of each generation; and iii) labor market characteristics. We find that in Latin America there has been a slight reduction in labor informality, associated mainly with the first effect: recent generations of workers with more schooling have lower informality rates than previous ones. In the case of Mexico we also observe that younger generations of workers have more years of schooling than previous ones; however, this has not translated into lower informal employment due to adverse labor market characteristics. Thus, even though Mexico has experienced faster educational progress than the average of the region, its progress in reducing informality has been nil.

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          Labor Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Patterns and Trends from Household Survey Microdata

          This paper documents the main patterns and trends of alternative definitions of labor informality in Latin America and the Caribbean, by exploiting a large database of more than 100 household surveys covering the period 1989-2005. The evidence suggests that there are no signs of a consistent pattern of reduction in labor informality in the region. Regardless of the definition used, labor informality remains a pervasive characteristic of labor markets in LAC. In several countries the increase in labor informality seems to have been associated more to a sizeable increase in the propensity to set informal arrangements within groups, than to changes in the national employment structure toward more informal sectors.
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                Contributors
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                ete
                El trimestre económico
                El trimestre econ
                Fondo de Cultura Económica (Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico )
                0041-3011
                2448-718X
                December 2016
                : 83
                : 332
                : 499-548
                Affiliations
                [1] Washington D. C. orgnameBanco Interamericano de Desarrollo USA SLEVY@ 123456iadb.org
                [2] orgnameCentro de Estudios Educativos y Sociales México mszekely@ 123456prodigy.net.mx
                Article
                S2448-718X2016000400499
                10.20430/ete.v83i332.232
                7612b057-4f42-445b-bc3c-007c13f515ba

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 24 February 2016
                : 01 December 2015
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 47, Pages: 50
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                escolaridad,mercado laboral,seguimiento de cohortes,análisis comparado,México vs. Latinoamérica,informality,schoding,labor market,cohort effects,comparative analysis,Mexico vs. Latin America,informalidad

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