Many developing economies, especially in Latin America, appear to be experiencing structural growth in the size of their informal sectors, inconsistent with traditional views that the informal sector acts as a buffer against unemployment, or is symptomatic of segmentation in the labour market....

The purpose of this report is to document the scale of uncovered employment in Brazil and to describe the trends in this phenomenon at least since the transition to democracy in the late 1980s. Micro-data obtained from annual Brazilian household surveys from 1992 onwards are used to model the...