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Does unemployment insurance offer incentives to take jobs in the formal sector? : unemployment insurance can protect against income loss and create formal employment
Bosch Mossi, Mariano - 2016
achieving coverage in countries with high informality, financing the scheme without further distorting the labor market, and …
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Designing UISAs for developing countries
Cirelli, Fernando; Espino, Emilio; Sanchez, Juan M. - 2018
The benefits of implementing Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) are studied in the presence of the multiple sources of information frictions often existing in developing countries. A benchmark incomplete markets economy is calibrated to Mexico in the early 2000s. The unconstrained...
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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...
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Strategic Formal Layoffs : Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets
Doornik, Bernardus Ferdinandus Nazar Van - 2020
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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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 …
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Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms
Doornik, Bernardus Ferdinandus Nazar Van - 2020
In this paper, we document that a more generous unemployment insurance (UI) system shifts labor supply from safer to riskier firms and reduces the compensating wage differential that riskier firms are required to pay. Reallocation of labor supply towards riskier firms has real implications for...
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Unemployment Insurance, Informality, and Precautionary Savings
Bloise, Caio Romeu; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues - 2022
Empirical evidence shows that in a labor market characterized by a severe degree of informality, unemployment insurance … model that incorporates informality in an incomplete markets framework to analyze the impact of changing (UI) components. In … while working in informality. We find that increasing the benefit eligibility criteria fosters employment while the duration …
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
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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Introducing a statutory minimum wage in middle and low income countries : successful implementation of a statutory minimum wage depends on context, capacity, and institutional desi...
Margolis, David N. - 2014
developing countries advance their development objectives, even where enforcement capacity is weak and informality is pervasive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417394
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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