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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549787
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278335
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Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America
Maurizio, Roxana; Monsalvo, Ana Paula - 2021
This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422660
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745625
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The impact of robots in Latin America : evidence from local labor markets
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468031
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Active labour market programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732357
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Motherhood and flexible jobs : evidence from Latin American countries
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
occupations- part-time work, self-employment, and labour informality-needed for family-work balance. Furthermore, countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432952
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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between 1995 and 2002 and declined to 39 by 2015. Between 2002 and 2015, the 90/10 log hourly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052155
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More work to do? : taking stock of Latin American labor markets
David, Antonio C.; Lambert, Frederic; Toscani, Frederik - 2019
increasing labor supply. We emphasize the role of informality in the dynamics of labor markets in Latin America. A re …-examination of Okun's law shows that informality dampens changes in unemployment accompanying output fluctuations. Moreover, we …' informality over and above what would be expected based on their income and educational levels. Labor market reforms could thus …
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