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Informal labor markets in times of pandemic: evidence for Latin America and policy options

Leyva, Gustavo; Urrutia, Carlos - 2021

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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Heterogeneous impacts on layoffs of changes in Brazilian unemployment insurance eligibility rules

Cravo, Túlio; O'Leary, Christopher J.; Sierra, Ana Cristina - 2020

This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program to assess the impact of changes in UI eligibility criteria on layoff probabilities. We exploit exogenous program changes introduced by executive and legislative changes in 2015...

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Active labour market programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean : evicence from a meta analysis

Escudero, Verónica; Kluve, Jochen; López Mourelo, Elva; … - 2017

We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to compile a novel meta database and provides a narrative review of 51 studies. Based on these studies,...

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Active labour market programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence from a meta analysis

Escudero, Verónica; Kluve, Jochen; López Mourelo, Elva; … - 2017

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Why should we integrate income and employment support? : a conceptual and empirical investigation

Asenjo, Antonia; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah - 2022

The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and social assistance - has been a key component of social protection in high-income countries since the 1990s, with a rich literature reviewing its effects and implementation...

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Chasing informality : evidence from increasing enforcement in large firms in Peru

Bosch, Mariano; González, Stephanie; Silva- Porto, … - 2021

Evasion of labor market regulations in middle income countries is systemic. This is generally known as informality. In … social security contributions. In this study we analyze the role of enforcement in curbing informality in large formal firms … in Peru, where informality levels are around 70%. Through the Peruvian National Labor Control Superintendence (SUNAFIL …

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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...

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Previous financial crises leading to stagnation : selected case studies

Dodig, Nina; Herr, Hansjörg - 2014

This paper analyses several severe financial crises observed in the history of capitalism which led to a longer period of stagnation or low growth. Comparative case studies of the Great Depression, the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and the Japanese crisis of the 1990s and 2000s are...

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Inflationary memory as restrictive factor of the impact of the public expense in the economic growth : lessons from high inflation Latin American countries using an innovative inflationary memory indicator

Sheriff B., H. Ernesto - 2010

A new inflationary memory indicator was developed and applied here. A panel was built with the selected countries considering the economic growth as dependent variable in function of the convergence hypothesis, the inflation rate, the public expense and, the recursive variance of the inflation...

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Trapped in bad specialization : premature deindustrialization and unstable growth in LACs

Gómez, María Celeste; Dosi, Giovanni; Riccio, Federico; … - 2025

Over the last forty years, Latin American countries (LACs) have experienced a variety of specialization trajectories, while sharing a common pattern of weak and unstable growth. Given the accelerated premature deindustrialization path and the loss of productive capacity, manufacturing has...

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