Latin America's population is aging, and many among the growing elderly population are not protected by traditional pension schemes. In response, policy makers have been reevaluating their income protection systems so that between 2000 and 2013, the majority of Latin American countries reformed...

This paper intends to characterize the take-up behavior of benefits in the Chilean Unemployment Insurance scheme. Using administrative data, we observe that only 35% of eligible individuals apply for some of the benefits covered by the program. The results suggest that an important part of the...