Informal employment accounts for more than half of total employment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and an even … productivity jobs. Lowering payroll taxes is a potential lever to increase formal employment and extend social insurance coverage … relatively small employment effects. Cutting payroll taxes requires levying other taxes to compensate for lost revenue, which may …

It is commonly argued that payroll tax cuts are inefficient for increasing employment among outsiders because insiders … will use their power to bargain for higher wages at the expense of outsiders’ possibility of becoming employed. The extent … largely focused on the employment effects of outsiders. Using wage statistics of employees in the Swedish retail sector, we …

Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this … permanent hiring. We also find a negative association between reinstatements and real wages of 3.9 %, but placebo tests indicate … policy to increase permanent hiring and wages. …