Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes … a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in …

approach in this paper is panel estimation for a group of 22 countries, both from the developed and developing world. The study …Estimation of the activities of the informal sector in an economy poses a serious problem for obtaining a correct … has tried to solve the problem of estimation of the informal sector using the method of latent variables. The standard …