During 2013 for example, more than 43 000 inspections were carried out in workplaces to verify the fulfilment of social security obligation (OECD, forthcoming). Together, these policy reforms are encouraging moves to tackle informality in Mexico. First, evidence suggests that public social spending is reduced by informality because informal workers do not contribute to social protection and insurance. Second, the quality of social protection is one of the forces driving informality. A lack of social protection (such as unemployment benefit) might create incentives to search for work in the informal economy, to avoid falling into poverty.