Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
foreign competition in developing countries leads to an expansion of the informal sector, defined as the sector that does not … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a … market. These results point to the significance of labor market institutions in assessing the effects of trade policy on the …