Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Argentina

Martín González Rozada, Lucas Ronconi and Hernán Ruffo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Martin Gonzalez-Rozada

No 3949, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper takes advantage of several reforms that provide time and cross sectional variation to identify the effects of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the duration of unemployment of covered spells with detailed information about transfers and their duration, while household surveys permit the study of separation probability and transitions to informal jobs, which are not observed in administrative data. It is found that unemployment duration increases significantly when unemployment insurance transfers are higher or are provided for a longer period; the effects of severance pay on unemployment duration are less robust. On the other hand, higher severance pay is found to reduce separation probability, while unemployment insurance transfers have a positive but small effect on separations.

Keywords: Unemployment insurance; Severance payments; Regression discontinuity; Duration models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J64 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
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