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This article constitutes an empirical contribution regarding the correlation between economic informality and the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. Based on interviews with merchants in the informal sector of the city of Huancayo, the pandemic-related impacts are analyzed in relation to income and livelihoods. It is argued that informal employment played an important role in the tragic indicators of public health in the country. The intrinsic flexibility of this type of activities, specifically for walking merchants, and the lack of access to systems and programs of social security were the main reasons that people worked in this sector to replace the income they lost due to confinement. Thus, the notion “replacement of income” in the economy appeared during the pandemic. The heterogeneity among those who carry out informal work, specifically in terms of their access to different resources, enabled such work and enabled some people to control their exposure to the virus. It is concluded that the focus on economic formalization of the last decades of financial liberalization are not considered advantages that informal activities offer in relation to formalization. In fact, informality continues to offer the best opportunity for immediate income and highly flexible options, in particular for adapting to crisis situations like the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is widely known that informal sector lacks labor rights. In this sense, the welfare of the population is violated. Therefore, the study of this sector is of interest. Thus, the present research has a double objective: knowing the characteristics of people working in the informal sector and knowing if there is wage discrimination. Both objectives were fulfilled with information from the National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE, for its acronym in Spanish) of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). The space and time of the study are Mexico City (CDMX), in the third quarter of 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first objective, a Probit model was used, taking as dependent variable whether the person works in the informal sector or not. The following characteristics were considered as independent variables: gender, age, schooling, whether the person is studying, whether he/she is married, hours worked per week and monthly income received. It was found that age and hours worked per week did not influence the probability of working informally. As for the second objective, an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) model was used, whose dependent variable was monthly income as a function of four dummy variables: gender, whether the person is studying, whether he/she is married and whether he/she works in the informal sector. It was concluded that there was wage discrimination, with women who studied and worked in the informal sector receiving, on average, a lower wage during the coronavirus epidemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumen: Los estudios sobre plataformas digitales de trabajo indican que internet brinda nuevas oportunidades de ingresos en el mundo en desarrollo, pero no se ha investigado el uso de los medios en línea sin intermediarios en el sector informal. Utilizando datos de la etnografía digital y entrevistas con trabajadores en Indonesia, se examina cómo los mototaxistas y los trabajadores domésticos accedieron al mercado de trabajo por medios sociales durante la pandemia de COVID‐19 cuando las plataformas no estaban autorizadas a operar. Aunque los medios sociales ampliaban las oportunidades de empleo, el éxito dependía del tamaño de las redes sociales de los trabajadores y estaba limitado por los algoritmos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Issue 97 of the magazine "Economic Analysis" presents ten articles by researchers from various universities in Mexico. The topics addressed include the dynamic convergence of time series, the estimation of the CAPM-alpha model, the role of early warnings in identifying currency crises in Mexico, the impact of partisan ideology on economic growth at the state level, the relationship between working poverty and inflation, the effect of technological progress on the profitability of the manufacturing sector, debt and stock performance in the Mexican Stock Exchange, the competitiveness of Mexican fresh beef in the US market, financial culture in micro and small family and non-family businesses in Latin America, and wage discrimination in the informal sector of Mexico City during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Extracted from the article]