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achieving coverage in countries with high informality, financing the scheme without further distorting the labor market, and …
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participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The latter is unprecedented since informality used to cushion the decline in … sector are essential to account for the employment and output loss and for the decline in the informality rate. …
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Exploiting an unemployment insurance (UI) reform in Brazil, we study incentive effects of UI in the presence of informal labor markets. We find that eligibility for UI benefits increases formal layoffs by twelve percent. Most of the additional formal layoffs are related to workers transitioning...
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Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...
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In this paper we assess the relationship between labor policies and market outcomes in Bolivia, accounting for a large informal sector mostly comprised of self-employed entrepreneurs. We calibrate a job search and matching model to reproduce labor market features in 2013, a period in which...
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are also larger in cities that have a higher baseline informality rate and lower ease of starting a business. …
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This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …
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informality can utilize climate policies to improve labor conditions while reaching their climate targets. …
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This paper first exploits a "bonus" policy providing low-income workers with cash grants in Brazil to study the effect of liquidity provision on unemployment outcomes. Based on a RD Design, I find that granting unemployed workers with a bonus equal to half of their previous monthly earnings...
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increasing labor supply. We emphasize the role of informality in the dynamics of labor markets in Latin America. A re …-examination of Okun's law shows that informality dampens changes in unemployment accompanying output fluctuations. Moreover, we …' informality over and above what would be expected based on their income and educational levels. Labor market reforms could thus …
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