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Supporting informal carers of older people : Policies to leave no carer behind

Rocard, Eileen - 2022

Informal carers – family and friends who perform care - are the first line of support for older people. About 60% of older people who receive care at home report receiving only informal care across OECD countries. While informal carers help to contain public costs, those costs are borne...

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How Does Informal Employment Affect the Design of Unemployment Insurance and Employment Protection?

Espino, Emilio - 2019

The authors use a simple model to study the optimal design of unemployment insurance and employment protection. Workers are risk averse and face the possibility of unemployment. Firms are risk neutral and face random shocks to productivity. Workers can participate in a shadow economy, or...

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Financing the extension of social insurance to informal economy workers : The role of remittances

Kolev, Alexandre - 2021

Informal employment, defined through the lack of employment-based social protection, constitutes the bulk of employment in developing countries, and entails a level of vulnerability to poverty and other risks that are borne by all who are dependent on informal work income. Results from the Key...

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Unemployment Insurance in the Presence of an Informal Sector

Bardey, David; Jaramillo, Fernando; Peña, Ximena - 2013

We study the effect of UI benefits in a typical developing country where the informal sector is sizeable and persistent. In a partial equilibrium environment we characterize the stationary equilibrium of an economy where policyholders may be employed in the formal sector, short-run unemployed...

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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011

that program coverage depends not only on the individual’s employment status, but also on that of other household members … guaranteeing Social Security coverage. However, workers pay for part of these benefits with lower wages in the informal sector. …

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Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Aterido, Reyes - 2011

that program coverage depends not only on the individual's employment status, but also on that of other household members … guaranteeing Social Security coverage. However, workers pay for part of these benefits with lower wages in the informal sector …

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