of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor …

Unemployment is a pressing problem in many countries in Latin America. Financial crises and increased globalization … increase job turnover and therefore the risk of unemployment. To protect workers, Chile implemented an innovative unemployment … job search behavior between workers who use unemployment benefits and those who do not. Search efforts were found to fall …

This paper tests the hysteresis hypothesis in unemployment for 13 Latin American countries covering the period 1980 …

-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers …, which are conditional on participation in training programs. We study how changes in unemployment benefits (UB) for … increasing training UB reduces unprotected unemployment and improves labor market outcomes through higher formal salaried …

unemployment reduce wellbeing; where the cost of inflation in terms of unemployment, hence the relative size of the weights in a … unemployment than inflation. Thus advocates and practioners of inflation only targeting are, and increasingly so, divorced from the … inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In …

inflation, growth, fiscal deficit, interest rate and other variables for each country in Latin America and the Caribbean from …

The December 2012 surveys of expectations for inflation and growth conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting … inflation expectations is 4.9% on a GDP weighted basis and the simple average remains at 4.3%, and the respective 2013 inflation …