The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina. New estimates using changes in the schedule of transfers

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Tác giả: Martin Gonzalez-Rozada, Hernan Ruffo

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 331.1373 Labor force and market

Thông tin xuất bản: 2022

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Comment: 34 pages, 12 figuresUnemployment insurance transfers should balance the provision of consumption to the unemployed with the disincentive effects on the search behavior. Developing countries face the additional challenge of informality. Workers can choose to hide their employment state and labor income in informal jobs, an additional form of moral hazard. To provide evidence about the effects of this policy in a country affected by informality we exploit kinks in the schedule of transfers in Argentina. Our results suggest that higher benefits induce moderate behavioral responses in job-finding rates and increase re-employment wages. We use a sufficient statistics formula from a model with random wage offers and we calibrate it with our estimates. We show that welfare could rise substantially if benefits were increased in Argentina. Importantly, our conclusion is relevant for the median eligible worker that is strongly affected by informality.
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