Many developing countries pursue policies that treat large and small firmsdifferently. For example, large firms may be subject to a value added tax whilesmall firms are explicitly exempted. Moreover, governments often find itimpractical to collect taxes from the smallest enterprises; this may...

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...

Publishing articles in Economics involves long time frames of up to several years from submission to publication. Consequently, journal contents tend to lag behind what is happening on the research frontier. The most usual sources of information on frontier research are conferences and "working...