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CHAPA CANTU, Joana Cecilia; SALDANA VILLANUEVA, Carlos Emmanuel  e  LUNA DOMINGUEZ, Edgar Mauricio. "Quédate en casa (si puedes)": Empleo informal y COVID-19 en México. Finanz. polit. econ. [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.1, pp.135-155.  Epub 28-Jun-2023. ISSN 2248-6046.  https://doi.org/10.14718/revfmanzpolitecon.v15.n1.2023.6.

This paper explores the relationship between residential confinement to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, seen as a public policy, and how it affects the informal labor sector, as well as the response of individuals to the pandemic in the states of Mexico. Forming panels for various levels of informality applied to panel vector auto-regressive (PVAR) shows that staying at home as public policy becomes more effective as informality decreases. In addition, the response of individuals to an increase in the spread of the pandemic depends on the level of informality: for states with lower rates of informality, individuals respond to a higher concentration of residential confinement. But for states with a higher level of informality, the evidence is not significant. The paper considers the role of informality in the development of an effective public policy.

JEL Classification: C34, F69, I12, I18, J46, Z18

Palavras-chave : COVID-19; stay-at-home; panel VAR; informal employment; Mexico.

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