Este artículo utiliza dos modelos macroeconómicos distintos, pero complementarios, para medir el efecto de algunos aspectos relevantes de la institucionalidad laboral de Chile respecto del ajuste y estructura de su mercado. Por un lado, se analiza cómo la rigidez de precios y salarios, junto...

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her...

In this article, we build an equilibrium search and matching model of an economy with an informal sector. Our model extends <link rid="b20">Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)</link> by allowing for "ex ante" worker heterogeneity with respect to formal-sector productivity. We use the model to analyse the effects of labour...

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her...

In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal sector, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, can have important spillover effects on the informal sector. The relative sizes of the informal and...

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation.

In this paper, we build an equilibrium search and matching model of an economy with an informal sector. Our model extends Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) by allowing for ex ante worker heterogeneity with respect to formal-sector productivity. We use the model to analyze the effects of labour...