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Cash-in-hand, benefit fraud and unemployment insurance

Long, Ian W.; Polito, Vito - 2015

Recent evidence questions the nature of the re-employment spike as unemployment insurance (UI) payments expire. Unemployed agents do not appear to devote more time to search and are observed leaving the UI scheme early without necessarily entering employment. We show that benefit fraud is...

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Heterogeneous Impacts on Layoffs of Changes in Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Rules

Cravo, Tulio - 2020

This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program to assess the impact of changes in UI eligibility criteria on layoff probabilities. We exploit exogenous program changes introduced by executive and legislative changes in 2015...

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Strategic Formal Layoffs : Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets

Doornik, Bernardus Ferdinandus Nazar Van - 2020

Exploiting an unemployment insurance (UI) reform in Brazil, we study incentive effects of UI in the presence of informal labor markets. We find that eligibility for UI benefits increases formal layoffs by twelve percent. Most of the additional formal layoffs are related to workers transitioning...

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Job Search, Unemployment Protection and Informal Work in Advanced Economies

Long, Iain - 2018

This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by engaging in temporary informal work. Using a dynamic model of job-search with moral hazard that incorporates a stylised schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector...

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Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high

Liepmann, Hannah; Pignatti, Clemente - 2021

We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality …

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Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms

Doornik, Bernardus Ferdinandus Nazar Van - 2020

In this paper, we document that a more generous unemployment insurance (UI) system shifts labor supply from safer to riskier firms and reduces the compensating wage differential that riskier firms are required to pay. Reallocation of labor supply towards riskier firms has real implications for...

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Unemployment Insurance, Informality, and Precautionary Savings

Bloise, Caio Romeu; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues - 2022

Empirical evidence shows that in a labor market characterized by a severe degree of informality, unemployment insurance … model that incorporates informality in an incomplete markets framework to analyze the impact of changing (UI) components. In … while working in informality. We find that increasing the benefit eligibility criteria fosters employment while the duration …

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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor

Palacios, Robert J. - 2020

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...

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The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia: Reconciling conflicting results

Lebow, Jeremy - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-49

are also larger in cities that have a higher baseline informality rate and lower ease of starting a business. …

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On the relationship between labor market policies and outcomes in Bolivia: A search and matching approach

Nogales, Ricardo; Córdova, Pamela; Urquidi, Manuel - In: Estudios de Economía 46 (2019) 1, pp. 61-87

In this paper we assess the relationship between labor policies and market outcomes in Bolivia, accounting for a large informal sector mostly comprised of self-employed entrepreneurs. We calibrate a job search and matching model to reproduce labor market features in 2013, a period in which...

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