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Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

van Ours, Jan C.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2012

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that substantially reduced the potential benefit duration....

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Unemployment Benefits, Active Labor Market Policies, and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from New Global Data

Georgieva, Dorina; Ulku, Hulya - 2022

Using novel data on unemployment benefits and active labor market policies in 191 countries in 2019 and 2020, this paper investigates the patterns of unemployment benefits and active labor market policies and their relationship with labor market outcomes. This study is unique in that it covers a...

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Unemployment, Skills, and Incentives : An Overview of the Safety Net System in the Slovak Republic

Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina - 2013

The author studies the potential disincentive effects of unemployment insurance, and social assistance payments on the duration of unemployment in the Slovak Republic. For this purpose, she uses new, very detailed data on receipt of benefits from the Unemployment Registry (1990-2000) and the...

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Analyzing the Dynamics of School Dropout in Upper Secondary Education in Latin America

Bentaouet Kattan, Raja; Székely, Miguel - 2015

This study examines trends in school dropout at the upper secondary education level across Latin America over the past two decades, and attempts to identify factors influencing these rates. The methodology contributes to the existing literature by employing repeated cross sections of data to...

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Governance in State-Owned Enterprises Revisited : The Cases of Water and Electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Andr??s, Luis Alberto; Guasch, Jos?? Luis; L??pez … - 2012

This paper studies the governance structure of state-owned enterprises in the water and electricity sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a unique dataset, the paper compares 44 leading state companies of the region based on an aggregate measure of corporate governance and six...

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Social Protection in Latin America : Achievements and Limitations

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Robalino, David - 2012

Social protection systems in Latin America have been transformed in the past two decades. Until the 1980s, those who were not covered by the social security arrangements available primarily in the urban formal sector received little public assistance beyond universal subsidies for some food or...

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Infrastructure in Latin America

Calder??n, C??sar; Serv??n, Luis - 2012

An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key ingredient for economic development. Over the past quarter-century, the retrenchment of Latin America's public sector from its dominant position in the provision of infrastructure, and...

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Infrastructure in Latin America : Dataset

Calder??n, C??sar; Serv??n, Luis - 2012

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Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Loayza, Norman V.; Serv??n, Luis; Sugawara, Naotaka - 2012

This paper studies the causes and consequences of informality and applies the analysis to countries in Latin America … and the Caribbean. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality, as well as on the reasons … why widespread informality should be of great concern. The paper analyzes informality's main determinants, arguing that …

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Fiscal Redistribution and Income Inequality in Latin America

Go??i, Edwin; L??pez, J. Humberto; Serv??n, Luis - 2012

Income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into income inequality depends on the redistributive capacity of...

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