Informality and poverty in Ecuador
利用厄瓜多尔家庭支出调查数据，研究贫困与非正规就业的双向关系，发现非正规就业既是需求驱动也是供给驱动的现象，对理解发展中国家劳动力市场有参考价值。
This paper uses national representative data from the Ecuadorian Family Expenditure survey to study the determinants of poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the two-way relationship between these two phenomena. The main contribution of this paper is to present new empirical evidence on this relationship for a developing country where more than 60% of workers are in the informal sector. The results support the view of a heterogeneous informal market, in which informal work is both a demand-led phenomenon and a voluntary and primarily supply-led form of employment.