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June 4, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Income Stratification within the Informal Sector: A Heterogeneous-Agent Incomplete-Markets Approach for Emerging Economies

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GTGiuliana Triberti

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore the effects of income stratification within Argentina's informal sector using a sophisticated economic model.
  • Developed a heterogeneous-agent incomplete-markets model calibrated to Argentina.
  • Distinguished between high-income and low-income informal agents based on local microdata.
  • Conducted preliminary simulations to assess the computational feasibility of the framework.
  • Model confirms the macroeconomic consequences of income stratification in the informal sector.
  • Tax formalization policies, particularly reforms to the monotributo regime, show significant distributional effects.
  • Preliminary simulations validate the project's approach and computational methods.

Abstract

This proposal develops a heterogeneous-agent incomplete-markets model in continuous time, calibrated to Argentina, to study the macroeconomic consequences of income stratification within the informal sector. Rather than treating informal workers as a homogeneous low productivity group, we explicitly distinguish between high-income and low-income informal agents, a distinction grounded in Argentine microdata. The framework is used to analyze the distributional and macroeconomic effects of tax formalization policies, with particular focus on reforms to Argentina's monotributo regime. Preliminary simulations confirm the project's computational feasibility.

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Giuliana Triberti (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2117bfd499ed480b1709achttps://doi.org/10.6082/qgv35-4ce40
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