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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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Informal labor markets in times of pandemic: evidence for Latin America and policy options
Leyva, Gustavo; Urrutia, Carlos - 2021
participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The latter is unprecedented since informality used to cushion the decline in … sector are essential to account for the employment and output loss and for the decline in the informality rate. …
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Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America: Overview and assessment
Ferrer, Ana M.; Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee's mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment
Ferrer, Ana; Riddell, W. Craig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee’s mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868138
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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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Labor Exclusion and the Erosion of Citizenship Responsibilities
Ronconi, Lucas; Zarazaga, Rodrigo - 2015
This paper shows that workers who do not receive legally mandated benefits due to employer noncompliance have a negative view not only of their employers, as has been documented, but also of the State. Those workers believe that the State did not protect their rights, and hence they feel fewer...
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