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Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries

Scarpetta, Stefano - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

differences across countries. In the major European countries, unemployment has increased dramatically over the past two decades …

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Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Uruguay

Amarante, Verónica; Arim, Rodrigo; Dean, Andrés - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

focus on unemployment. The main policies aimed at protecting workers against unemployment are analyzed. Using administrative … labor market. Finally, an impact evaluation of recent changes in the unemployment insurance program is presented. …

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Unemployment Insurance in High Informality Countries

Espino, Emilio; Sánchez, Juan M. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …

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U.S. Free Trade Agreements and Enforcement of Labor Law in Latin America

Dewan, Sabina; Ronconi, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits...

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An Assessment of Pension System Reform in Uruguay in 1995

Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

In 1995, the government of Uruguay undertook a first pillar-based reform of the pension system, as opposed to the second pillar-based Chilean-style reform. The paper's first section describes Uruguay's pension system prior to reform. It demonstrates quite clearly that the crisis faced by that...

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New Policies for Mandatory Defined Contribution Pensions: Industrial Organization Models and Investment Products

García-Huitrón, Manuel; Impavido, Gregorio; … - Inter-American Development Bank

contribution pensions of consumers' inability to make rational choices; (ii) describes how jurisdictions have tried to address …

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Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America

Gill, Indermit S.; Packard, Truman G.; Yermo, Juan - Inter-American Development Bank

Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieved, but that critical challenges remain. In tackling this unfinished agenda, a great deal can be learned from the reform experience of countries in...

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Financing Universal Social Security in Mexico

Antón, Arturo; Trillo, Fausto Hernández - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The proposal by Levy (2008) whereby a universal social insurance (USI) scheme is guaranteed to all workers, regardless of formality status, aims at abolishing the current contributory social insurance system and financing social insurance through value-added taxes instead (henceforth, the social...

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Simplification of Labor Registration in Argentina: Achievements and Pending Issues

Ronconi, Lucas; Colina, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper describes the reforms aimed at simplifying the administrative procedures for labor registration and the payment of social security contributions that were carried out in Argentina in 2005 and 2007. Analysis of the legislation, as well as a survey conducted among accountants, reveals...

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Payroll Taxes and Labor Demand: Evidence from Colombia

Arjona, Marcela Meléndez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

Available evidence suggests that workers may have a low willingness or ability to pay for social security (via a reduction in their wage) and that this is particularly so for low-income workers. The end result is that social security contributions are borne by employers, effectively reducing the...

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