The Efficiency of the Informal Sector on the Search and Matching Framework

Número: 
832
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
H21, J64, J65
Palabras clave: 
efficiency, Informal Sector, Hidden Search Effort

This paper analyzes efficiency in an economy with an informal sector that consists of unregulated self-employment, and where there are no costs of being informal, (Albrecht et al. (2009)). First, assuming workers in the formal sector are ex-ante heterogen