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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...

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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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Heterogeneous Impacts on Layoffs of Changes in Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Rules

Cravo, Tulio - 2020

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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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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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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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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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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,...

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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

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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 …

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