Unemployment insurance in the presence of an informal sector

We study the effect of UI benefits in a typical developing country where the informal sector is sizeable and persistent. In a partial equilibrium environment we characterize the stationary equilibrium of an economy where policyholders may be employed in the formal sector, short-run unemployed receiv...

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Autores:

Bardey, David
Jaramillo, Fernando
Peña Parga, Ximena

Tipo de recurso:

Work document

Fecha de publicación:

2013

Institución:

Universidad de los Andes

Repositorio:

Séneca: repositorio Uniandes

Idioma:

spa

OAI Identifier:

oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8373

Acceso en línea:

http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8373

Palabra clave:

Developing countries
Income effect
Informal sector
Unemployment insurance
Economía informal - Países en desarrollo
Seguros de desempleo - Países en desarrollo
H55, I38, J65

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openAccess

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/