Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge; Leal Ordonez, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this work we study the impact on the size of the informal sector of a tax levied on formal workers, and transfers that may be distributed to both formal and informal workers alike. We build a search model that features an informal sector and we calibrate it to data from Mex- ico. We...