, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region …

, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region …

Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important … unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase … infor- mality, protection policies are second best to active policies specifically designed to increase the productivity …

of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in … Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the duration of unemployment of covered spells with detailed information … informal jobs, which are not observed in administrative data. It is found that unemployment duration increases significantly …

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 …

Unemployment benefit systems are nonexistent in many developing economies. Introducing such systems poses many … consequences on the labor market of implementing an unemployment benefit system in economies with large informal sectors and high … the model for Mexico, and show that the introduction of an unemployment benefit system, where workers contribute when …