https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/gabriel-ulyssea/Gabriel UlysseaHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/rural-migrants-and-urban-informality-evidence-from-brazil/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/rural-migrants-and-urban-informality-evidence-from-brazil/<p><strong>Research Question.</strong> Does rural-urban migration increase or decrease urban informality, and through what mechanisms — and does the answer depend on the time horizon?</p> <p><strong>Setting and Data.</strong> The paper studies internal migration in Brazil over 2000–2010. The empirical analysis combines: (i) two waves of the Decennial Population Census (2000 and 2010) covering working-age adults (ages 15–64) across 3,548 Minimum Comparable Areas (MCAs); (ii) the universe of formal firms and workers from the matched employer-employee administrative dataset RAIS (1997–2018); (iii) the ECINF informal firm survey (2003); and (iv) the annual National Household Survey (PNAD, 2001–2009) for year-on-year short-run analysis in 700 identifiable municipalities. Internal immigration to the average urban destination was large: 17.6 percent overall over the decade, 7 percent for state-to-state migration.</p>