Job search, unemployment protection, and informal work

Author:

Long Iain W1,Polito Vito2

Affiliation:

1. Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU, UK

2. Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, 9 Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT, UK

Abstract

Abstract Informal work is a significant feature of labour markets in many developed countries, despite having unemployment protection (UP) programmes. We use a model of job search over the duration of unemployment to study how the structure of these programmes influences the incentive of the unemployed to engage in informal work while searching for formal jobs. Accounting for informality enables the model to jointly explain three known features on job search dynamics: a temporary re-employment spike, low search effort, and negative duration dependence. The quantitative analysis finds that both informality and unemployment can be reduced by redistributing (across either workers or programmes), rather than increasing, the overall UP budget.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Economics and Econometrics

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