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Job search, unemployment protection and informal work in advanced economies
Long, Iain W.; Polito, Vito - 2017
This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by engaging in temporary informal work. Using a dynamic model of job-search with moral hazard that incorporates a stylised schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761509
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Heterogeneous Impacts on Layoffs of Changes in Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Rules
Cravo, Tulio - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842086
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Job Search, Unemployment Protection and Informal Work in Advanced Economies
Long, Iain - 2018
This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by engaging in temporary informal work. Using a dynamic model of job-search with moral hazard that incorporates a stylised schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929479
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Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high
Liepmann, Hannah; Pignatti, Clemente - 2021
We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596314
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The impact of robots in Latin America : evidence from local labor markets
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468031
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Unemployment dynamics with informality : an empirical analysis for a developing country
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; … - 2023
decomposition unveils that the contribution of the flow from informality to unemployment is larger than that of the flow from formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331921
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Cash-on-hand in developing countries and the value of social insurance : evidence from Brazil
Britto, Diogo G. C. - 2016
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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Savings for unemployment in good or bad times : options for developing countries
Robalino, David; Vodopivec, Milan; Bodor, Andras - 2009
The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own unused unemployment contributions, and offer the...
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Designing unemployment benefits in developing countries : for unemployment benefit programs, the key policy issues are the level of benefits and subsidies and the types of taxes us...
Robalino Aguirre, David A. - 2014
In reforming unemployment benefit systems, the policy debate should be on the appropriate level of benefits, the subsidies needed for people who cannot contribute enough, and how to finance the subsidies, rather than on whether unemployment insurance or individual unemployment savings accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414100
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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021
simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show the following: 1) Trade … openness unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. 2) The … even when informality is repressed. 4) Repressing informality increases productivity but at the expense of employment and …
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