Informality shares in Brazil, 1995-2015
Minimum Wages and Informality (with E. Derenoncourt, F. Gerard, and L. Lagos):
- NBER Working Paper, #34445, November 2025.
- Presentation slides
- List of tables and figures
Data:
- Minimum Wage database (1940-2020): federal monthly minimum wage (1940-2020) (.dta), federal annual minimum wage (1940-2020) (.dta), and regional minimum wage database by industry and occupation (2001-2020) (.dta). See Appendix A.2 and A.3 of our working paper for a description of the database and additional details.
- Complete raw and output data: PNAD 1976-2016, 2000 and 2010 decennial census data, ECINF 1997 and 2003, INPC series, PME (2002-2016), minimum wage databases, etc. (.html)
Replication archive:
- Complete data, programs, tables, figures & tex files: working paper, presentation slides, raw and output data & programs (.html)