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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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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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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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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...
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Labor and Product Market Reforms in Morocco
Sarr, Babacar - 2019
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858957
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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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The Economic Impact of Sovereign Defaults in Latin America 1870-2012
Boonman, Tjeerd M. - 2016
This article analyzes sovereign debt defaults in four Latin American countries — Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico — for the period 1870-2012. The impact of sovereign defaults on real GDP growth is generally short-lived, while the impact in terms of output losses is deep and lasts long....
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