unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the … absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is primarily a middle-class phenomenon: the unemployed are not …

redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and … poverty risk have become increasingly become concentrated among workers with low education, middle‐income opinion has become … more permissive of cuts in unemployment insurance generosity and income assistance to the poor. At constant generosity, the …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …