This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program …

and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on …

disemployment effects. Regions with weaker enforcement had no employment losses but substantial increases in informality. All … effects are concentrated on unskilled workers, with no effects on skilled workers. The results indicate that informality acts …

-being, implementation of minimum wage laws can also be associated with increased unemployment and the movement of workers into the informal … empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …

-liberal argument that strictness of employment protection hurts labor through increased long-term and youth unemployment rates. While … it finds no empirical basis for this orthodox standpoint it observes that long-term unemployment dampens aggregate … production which in turn aggravates unemployment problem …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …