Introducing unemployment insurance to developing countries

Artikel

The paper analyzes key labor market and institutional features of developing countries that affect functioning of unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment insurance program to their circumstances, among others by relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts), complemented by solidarity funding, as a key source of financing; by simplifying monitoring of job-search behavior and labor market status; and by piggybacking on existing networks to administer benefits. The paper also addresses the question whether developing countries should introduce unemployment insurance.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA Journal of Labor Policy ; ISSN: 2193-9004 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2013 ; Pages: 1-23 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Thema: unemployment ; unemployment insurance ; monitoring of benefits ; unemployment insurance savings accounts ; Arbeitslosenversicherung ; Einführung ; Institutionalismus ; Moral Hazard ; Ökonomischer Anreiz ; Entwicklungsländer

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Vodopivex, Milan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/2193-9004-2-1
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92338
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ