4, August, 2015


A Tale of Two Species : Revisiting the Effect of Registration Reform on Informal Business Owners in Mexico
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The author separates informal business owners into two groups: those with personal characteristics similar to wage workers, and those with traits similar to formal-business owners. The paper then examines how the two groups were affected by a business registration reform in Mexico. Informal-business owners from the second group were more likely to register their business after the reform. By contrast, informal-business owners from the first group were less likely to register but more likely to become wage workers after the reform. This is consistent with the finding in Bruhn (2008 and 2011) that the reform led to job creation. It also explains why the earlier papers find that the reform didn’t affect the number of new registrations by all informal business owners.
Author: Bruhn, Miriam
Orginal publication date: February, 2012
Publisher: The World Bank
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