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Transferencias Monetarias, Pobreza y Desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe

Stampini, Marco; Medellín, Nadin; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2023

identificar factores que les impiden reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad. Para realizar esta evaluación, analizamos tres …. Utilizamos una línea de pobreza internacional de 6,85 dólares PPA por día (similar a la línea de pobreza nacional promedio de los … administrativas. Mostramos que dos factores clave limitan el efecto de los programas de transferencias monetarias sobre la pobreza y …

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Heterogeneidad regional en las diferencias por género en las tasas de desempleo en Colombia

Duque, Juan C.; García, Gustavo; Herrera-Idárraga, Paula - 2015

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Adaptar las líneas de pobreza monetaria para reflejar los costos de la discapacidad : un estudio aplicado en Perú

Pinilla-Roncancio, Mónica; Schwarz, Natalie; Smith, Pamela - 2025

de apoyo, atención médica y transporte) que no se reflejan en las líneas de pobreza monetaria. Esto tiene varias … consecuencias negativas. En primer lugar, los gobiernos subestiman la tasa de pobreza entre las personas con discapacidad. Segundo … ejemplo, para cerrar la brecha de pobreza). Estos problemas pueden evitarse asignándoles un mayor peso al calcular el ingreso …

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Designing UISAs for developing countries

Cirelli, Fernando; Espino, Emilio; Sanchez, Juan M. - 2018

The benefits of implementing Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) are studied in the presence of the multiple sources of information frictions often existing in developing countries. A benchmark incomplete markets economy is calibrated to Mexico in the early 2000s. The unconstrained...

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Unemployment insurance in high informality countries

Espino, Emilio; Sanchez, Juan M. - 2013

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate alternative schemes to provide insurance for unemployed...

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Enforcement spillovers under different networks : the case of quotas for persons with disabilities in Brazil

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Gagete-Miranda, Jessica - 2024

This study examines labor law enforcement spillovers in Brazil's highly informal economy, focusing on disability quota enforcement for formal firms. New inspection procedures increased compliance through heightened inspections and fines, boosting disability hiring. We investigate spillover...

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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023

We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...

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Job search costs and incentives

Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Zultan, Ro'i - 2012

The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with friction that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is noncontractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect may...

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How should unemployment insurance vary over the business cycle?

Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt - 2019

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with aggregate risk and incomplete markets. We validate the model-implied micro and macro labor market elasticities to changes in UI generosity against existing estimates, and...

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Matching, wage rigidities and efficient severance pay

Fella, Giulio - 2012

This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but not new, matches. Mandated severance pay matters only if binding real wage rigidities imply inefficient separation under employment at will. In such a case, large enough severance...

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