What's new in the old debate about the causes of informal employment?
Abstract
In Latin America and the Caribbean, labour informality affected 53.8% of workers in 2016, according to ILO (2018). The concept was first used in the early 1970s and generated intense debate in the labour economy field about the nature of its causes. The Dualist Approach, the Structuralist Approach and the Legalist Approach were constituted as the three main schools, although in the new millennium a fourth line of research was born, the Holistic Approach, which highlights the heterogeneity of the phenomenon and combines the explanations of the other theories. Through an exhaustive literary review, this article proposes to make a critical analysis of the causes of informality for each of the main theoretical currents and to present an update of the latest advances in the matter.
Keywords: labor informality, causes, holistic approach.Downloads
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