Objective. This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods. We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of...

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Culture, Structure, and the South Texas-Northern Mexico Border Economy -- 2. Underground Economic Activities -- 3. Informal Economic Activities -- 4. Informality and Undocumented Workers -- 5. Informal Cross-Border Trade -- 6. Border...