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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161537
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745625
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Active labour market programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence from a meta analysis
Escudero, Veronica; 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732357
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Poverty and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2015
poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384097
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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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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052155
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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114119
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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466614
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Welfare and the depth of informality : evidence from five African countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Poggi, Cecilia; Gutierrez Rufrancos, … - 2021
This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of … informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social …, showing that a household head informality dummy obscures a non-linear relationship between the depth of household informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427967
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Unemployment insurance in Chile : lessons from a high inequality developing country
Sehnbruch, Kirsten; Carranza, Rafael; Contreras … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696080