Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda

Brenda Samaniego de la Parra: Professor Brenda Samaniego de la Parra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Santa Cruz and a member of the steering committee of the Center for Analytical Finance at U.C. Santa Cruz. Her research analyzes how...

Resumen: This paper examines why informality remains widespread in Mexico and Colombia, where roughly half of workers lack formal employment benefits. Using four discrete choice experiments with nationally representative samples of full-time workers (N≈7,650), we estimate...