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On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin AmericaPart of Book Falling Inequality in Latin America
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Technical Note
Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador: an application of ECUAMODThis note has been produced alongside a WIDER working paper assessing the effect of the Unemployment Insurance benefit on income protection in Ecuador. The aim of this note is to describe the methodology used to assess the effect of the Unemployment...
Working Paper
Unemployment insurance and income protection in EcuadorThis paper explores the role of the recently introduced unemployment insurance benefit (seguro de desempleo) in protecting incomes in case of unemployment in Ecuador. We use ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, to simulate...
Working Paper
On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin AmericaThe paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and...
Research Brief
The Evolution of Social Protection in Latin AmericaSocial insurance has not succeeded in reducing fiscal deficits and expanding coverage to more beneficiaries in Latin America Social assistance has had a greater impact on poverty and inequality than social insurance In lower-middle-income countries...
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