TY - BOOK AU - Cartaya,Vanessa AU - Casanovas,Roberto AU - Chavez,Eliana AU - Elizondo,Néstor AU - Lagos,Ricardo A. AU - Looye,Johanna W. AU - Mesa-Lago,Carmelo AU - Schkolnik,Mariana AU - Tokman,Victor E. TI - Beyond Regulation: The Informal Economy in Latin America SN - 9781555873189 PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; PART 1 SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS --; 1 The Informal Sector in Latin America: From Underground to Legality --; PART 2 INFORMALITY AND ILLEGALITY --; 2 Informality and Illegality, a False Identity: The Case of Bolivia --; 3 Illegality in the Urban Informal Sector of Mexico City --; PART 3 THE COST OF LEGALITY --; 4 Barriers to Legality and Their Costs for the Informal Sector --; 5 Real Versus Ideal and the Brazilian Jeitinho: A Study of Microenterprise Registry Under the New Microenterprise Statute --; 6 The Costs of Becoming Legal for Informal Firms: The Case of Venezuela --; PART 4 REGULATION AND INFORMALITY --; 7 Protection for the Informal Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean by Social Security or Alternative Means --; 8 The Taxi Market in Chile: Regulation and Liberalization Policies, 1978-1987 --; 9 Consequences of the Legal and Regulatory Framework in Peru's Taxi Market --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book and the Editor; restricted access N2 - The authors argue that the costs to the informal sectors of Latin American economies imposed by legal and constitutional constraints are not as great as is typically claimed UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685856359 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685856359 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685856359/original ER -