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Adjusting to Transitory Shocks: Worker Impact, Firm Channels, and (Lack of) Income Support
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Silva, Joana - 2023
the universe of cash transfer, unemployment insurance, and training beneficiaries. Negative employment effects take over a … permanently skilled workers while reducing unskilled workers. Brazilian workers suffer smaller employment losses in highly …, employment and productivity) downsizing. Unemployment insurance and cash transfers yield limited wage loss replacement (6 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377453
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Trade Shocks on Workers
Arni, Patrick; Egger, Peter H.; Erhardt, Katharina; … - 2024
This paper identifies the causal effects of trade shocks on worker outcomes. We exploit a unique setting based on three pillars: (i) a large, unanticipated appreciation of the Swiss franc in 2015, (ii) detailed data with firm-level exposure to trade via output markets (both domestic and foreign)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534282
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Unfolding Trade Effect in Two Margins of Informality. The Peruvian Case
Cisneros-Acevedo, Camila - 2021
out in registered firms, employees are off the books. Peru's relentless informal employment and its unprecedented trade … through two competing and contrasting mechanisms. On the one hand, extensive-informal employment declines as unregistered … employers shrink or exit due to their low productivity. On the other hand, intensive-informal employment rises as registered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599201
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Unfolding Trade Effect in Two Margins of Informality. The Peruvian Case
Cisneros-Acevedo, Camila - 2021
out in registered firms, employees are off the books. Peru's relentless informal employment and its unprecedented trade … through two competing and contrasting mechanisms. On the one hand, extensive-informal employment declines as unregistered … employers shrink or exit due to their low productivity. On the other hand, intensive-informal employment rises as registered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224086
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Adjusting to Transitory Shocks : Worker Impact, Firm Channels, and (Lack of) Income Support
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Silva, Joana - 2023
the universe of cash transfer, unemployment insurance, and training beneficiaries. Negative employment effects take over a … permanently skilled workers while reducing unskilled workers. Brazilian workers suffer smaller employment losses in highly …, employment and productivity) downsizing. Unemployment insurance and cash transfers yield limited wage loss replacement (6 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347983
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Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; … - 2025
We examine the effects of international trade in the presence of a set of domestic distortions giving rise to informality, a prevalent phenomenon in developing countries. In our quantitative model, the informal sector arises from burdensome taxes and regulations that are imperfectly enforced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015419056
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Job Search, Unemployment Protection and Informal Work in Advanced Economies
Long, Iain W.; Polito, Vito - 2017
affecting the incentive to search for formal employment. We find that increasing benefit generosity makes job seekers less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777628
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The Role of Informality in Moderating the Impact of Adverse Macroeconomic Shocks
Marjit, Sugata; Bhattacharyya, Ranajoy; Yang, Lei - 2023
This paper provides a simple demonstration of an empirical observation pointed out by the existing literature that the presence of informality in the production sector of an economy moderates the impact of economic shocks affecting it. We show that in the presence of informality, adverse demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377560
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Coordinated tax-tariff reforms, informality, and welfare distribution
Ligthart, Jenny E.; van der Meijden, Gerard C. - 2010
The paper studies the revenue, efficiency, and distributional implications of a simple strategy of offsetting tariff reductions with increases in destination-based consumption taxes so as to leave consumer prices unchanged. We employ a dynamic micro-founded macroeconomic model of a small open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275699
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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Mimic Model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348093