unemployment insurance (UI) as an instrument for employment protection during the pandemic-induced recession. The analysis reveals … underscore the potential of temporary layoff unemployment insurance schemes in developing countries as effective tools to address …

, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

-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 …

externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …

firms are more cyclically sensitive to unemployment. Besides, the VAR impulse response analysis suggests that workers move …