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IZA Policy Paper No. 6
PO LI CY PAPE R S E R I E S
Introducing Unemployment Insurance to Developing Countries
Milan Vodopivec
April 2009
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor
Introducing Unemployment Insurance to Developing Countries
Milan Vodopivec
World Bank and IZA
Policy Paper No. 6 April 2009
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IZA Policy Paper No. 6 April 2009
ABSTRACT
Introducing Unemployment Insurance to Developing Countries*
The paper identifies key labor market and institutional differences between developed and developing countries, analyzes how these differences affect the working of the standard, OECD-style unemployment insurance (UI) program, and derives a desirable design of unemployment benefit program in developing countries. It argues that these countries – faced by large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, large political risk, and environment prone to corruption – should tailor the OECD-style UI program to suit their circumstances. To minimize employment disincentives, to ensure affordability, and to minimize administration cots, such adaptations include: (i) relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts – UISAs) as a main source of financing and complementing it by solidarity funding; (ii) simplifying monitoring of job-search behavior and labor market status, and even eliminating personal monitoring of continuing eligibility...