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We model a reinsurance mechanism for the national unemployment insurance programs of euro area member states. The risk …-sharing scheme we analyze is designed to smooth country-level unemployment risk and expenditures around each country's median level … of the euro area member states' unemployment expenditures risk in the aftermath of the 2009 sovereign debt crisis if …
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Wage insurance provides income support to displaced workers who find reemployment at a lower wage. We analyze wage insurance in the context of the U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program by merging linked employer-employee Census data to TAA petitions and leveraging a discontinuity in...
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larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated …. This exercise suggests that extending the current US unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with a clear …
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tiers of social protection, in particular upstream systems such as unemployment insurance, job retention and employment …
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the wage distribution and labor market institutions and identify conditions under which collective contract staggering and …
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This paper analyses data on industrial robots in European manufacturing sectors, focusing on their applications and characteristics, their distribution over countries and sectors and the main factors that are correlated with robot adoption such as wage levels and robot prices. We argue that,...
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This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and informality and highlights the role of GDP growth and its composition in the level and evolution of informality, using country data from 1991 to 2019. The analysis reveals a weak relationship, although with important differences...
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We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality …
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This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to their clients or employers via...
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