Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment

Arbeitspapier

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model are estimated to replicate the structure of the labor market in Malaysia in 2009 and the distribution of earnings for informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative effect on unemployment if benefits are not overly generous. The main effect would be a reallocation of labor from wage into self employment while increasing average wages in the formal and informal sectors.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6660

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements ; Labor Demand ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Thema: unemployment insurance ; informal sector ; self employment ; job search ; Arbeitslosenversicherung ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Informeller Sektor ; Selbstständige ; Arbeitsuche ; Malaysia

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Margolis, David N. ; Navarro, Lucas ; Robalino, David A.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62440
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ