Labor Market Informality and the Business Cycle /

Labor market informality is a pervasive feature of most developing economies. Motivated by the empirical regularity that the labor informality rate falls with GDP per capita, both at business cycle frequency and in a cross-section of countries, and that the Okun's coefficient falls with the lev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lambert, Frederic
Other Authors: Pescatori, Andrea, Toscani, Frederik
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/256
Online Access:Full text available on IMF