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Employment Turnover and Unemployment Insurance
Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José V. - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1997
Two features distinguish European and US labor markets. First, most European countries have substantially more generous unemployment insurance. Second, the duration of unemployment and employment spells are substantially higher in Europe - employment turnover is lower. We show that...
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Trade liberalization, labor reforms and formal–informal employment dynamics
Bosch, Mariano; Goñi-Pacchioni, Edwin; Maloney, William - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 653-667
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rise in informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … constitutional reforms. Trade liberalization accounts for roughly 1–2.5% of the increase in informality, while the constitutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051733
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Unemployment insurance/severance payments and informality in developing countries
Bardey, David; Jaramillo, Fernando - Condorcet Center for Political Economy, Centre de … - 2011
We analyze whether the introduction or an increase of unemployment insurance (UI hereafter) benefits in developing countries reduces the e¤ort made by unemployed workers to secure a new job in the formal sector. We adopt a comparative static approach and we consider the consequences of an...
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The employment policy in Italy
Vito, Francesco - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 123 (2013) 3-4, pp. 353-372
This article discusses full employment policies in their general and theoretical terms and assesses their possibility of application in Italy. Firstly Vito examines the arguments provided by neoclassical theory against full employment policies. Secondly Vito examines the causes of unemployment...
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Unemployment Insurance in the Presence of an Informal Sector
Bardey, David; Jaramillo, Fernando; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013
We study the effect of UI benefits in a typical developing country where the informal sector is sizeable and persistent. In a partial equilibrium environment we characterize the stationary equilibrium of an economy where policyholders may be employed in the formal sector, short-run unemployed...
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El rompecabezas de la protección social en un mercado laboral con alta informalidad : análisis de un siglo de reformas en Colombia (The Puzzle of the Social Protection System in a...
Álvarez, Andrés; Villaveces Niño, Marta Juanita - 2022
Spanish Abstract: ¿Qué podemos aprender de la evolución del sistema de seguridad social y de las instituciones del mercado laboral para los futuros procesos de reforma en Colombia? Contestamos este interrogante desde una perspectiva histórica y de análisis institucional la evolución de las...
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The informality phenomenon and its contribution to the growth of the city of Guayaquil
Torresano, José Véliz; Christiansen, Suleen Díaz - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 19 (2014) 37, pp. 90-97
Under-employment or informality is a compelling truth in developing countries, and Ecuador is no exception, least of … all the city Guayaquil. This descriptive study attempts to investigate informality, its reality and characteristics, and … influence the non-formalization of its activities. The results support that informality may be seen as an enterprise mechanism …
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No reversal of fortune in the long run: geography and spatial persistence of prosperity in Colombia, 1500-2005
Meisel, Adolfo - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2014
This paper examines the non-reversal of fortune thesis proposed by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) in the light of the Colombian experience over the last 500 years. Using a total of 14 national population censuses and the record of tributary Indians in 1559, it is found that the...
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El monetarismo y el neo-estructuralismo
Isaza, Francisco Giraldo - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)
El presente ensayo constituye la segunda parte del trabajo titulado Las Teorías del Desarrollo en América Latina", cuya primera entrega se publicó en el número anterior de esta Revista. En esta segunda entrega se examina en su orden el pensamiento monetarista y neoestructuralista sobre los...
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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini - a "19th Century statistic" - which has subsequently become known as the ´Palma Ratio'. In this new article, I revisit the argument for such a measure. Using new data, I...
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