Latin American Economic Review

Table 7 Informality rates in labor markets.

From: Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America

	Informality rate (%)	Correlation with income	Correlation with poverty
Argentina	38.73	− 0.269	0.158
Bolivia	67.47	− 0.271	0.319
Brazil	46.28	− 0.189	0.207
Chile	31.62	− 0.157	0.095
Colombia	59.04	− 0.314	0.289
Costa Rica	37.70	− 0.231	0.177
Dominican Rep.	52.39	− 0.243	0.145
Ecuador	59.40	− 0.227	0.222
Honduras	64.30	− 0.214	0.295
Mexico	45.16	− 0.135	0.218
Panama	41.92	− 0.266	0.352
Peru	62.33	− 0.318	0.288
Paraguay	46.93	− 0.122	0.284
El Salvador	57.22	− 0.138	0.236
Uruguay	34.90	− 0.231	0.135

Informality is measured as the percent of workers without access to the social security system. Data are for the latest year available

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