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Brazilian unemployment insurance and reinsertion wage: empirical analisys with discontinuity and propensity score matching

Abstract:

The objective of this article is to evaluate the influence of the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance program on their reinsertion wage of benefited. For the empirical analysis, we used the method of regression model Sharp discontinuity, as well as the propensity score matching as a criterion of robustness.Evaluating the results, one perceives that the national program goes of meeting to the theories, since sufficient did not reveal to influence the wage of reserve of the benefited ones. This indicates that the same act in order to assists financially the worker for a defined period of time without adding any level of human capital to their benefit.

Keywords:
unemployment insurance; reinsertion wage; regression discontinuity; propensity score matching

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