The aim of this paper is to present evidence of the main factors that influence the voluntary decision of the assurance of unemployment in Chile. To carry out this purpose, a model Logit Binomial was estimated using information of the Survey of Socioeconomic Characterization (CASEN) 2003. The...

Unemployment in European countries is a subject of transcendental importance to analyze, because they are the nations that receive the greatest number of migrants who go in search of employment. This scenario ignores the local labor supply for young people, which leads to greater informality and...

Primero enseñaremos que la (nueva) curva de Phillips diseñada por la escuela del «Nuevo Keynesianismo» se puede transformar fácilmente en una curva de Phillips «clásica». Teniendo en cuenta el «mismatch» en los mercados laborales, como lo describe la curva de Beveridge y combinando...

In 2013, the Colombian government created the “Mecanismo de Proteccion al Cesante”, a mechanism for unemployed individuals to reach consumption smoothing and facilitate their re-entering into the workforce. This study estimates the medium (12 months) and long term (18 months) impacts of the...

This paper presents a collection of spatial econometrics tools to detect global and local spatial dependence. These tools are used to analyze the spatial structure of the unemployment rate in Argentina in Census 2001 and 2010. Detailed study enables identification and comparison of persistent...

The aim of this paper is to present evidence of the main factors that influence the voluntary decision of the assurance of unemployment in Chile. To carry out this purpose, a model Logit Binomial was estimated using information of the Survey of Socioeconomic Characterization (CASEN) 2003. The...

The present paper studies the dynamics of unemployment determinants and their influence on aggregate well-being, using micro-data from the ENFT and a Logit model combined with micro-simulation techniques. The results confirm that the unemployment probability of the economically active people is...