Does the Unemployment Benefit Institution Affect the Productivity of Workers? Evidence from the Field

Juan Fernando Vargas Duque; Mariana Blanco; Patricio S.  Dalton

doi:10.1287/mnsc.2016.2511

Does the Unemployment Benefit Institution Affect the Productivity of Workers? Evidence from the Field

Juan Fernando Vargas Duque, Mariana Blanco, Patricio S. Dalton

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El presente documento estudia los efectos de los regímenes de prestaciones de desempleo en la productividad individual. Creamos empleo y desempleo en el campo y comparamos la productividad de los trabajadores sin beneficios de desempleo con la productividad bajo dos esquemas de desempleo diferentes. En un plan, los desempleados recibieron una transferencia monetaria incondicional. En el otro, la transferencia monetaria se obtuvo a condición de que los desempleados pasaran algún tiempo en una actividad auxiliar. Nuestros resultados desafían la predicción de la teoría económica estándar de que los beneficios de desempleo, especialmente las compensaciones incondicionales, obstaculizan el esfuerzo de los trabajadores. Encontramos que los trabajadores empleados bajo el esquema incondicional son más productivos que los trabajadores bajo el esquema condicional, y ambos esquemas hacen que los trabajadores sean más productivos que no tener ningún beneficio de desempleo. Discutimos dos posibles explicaciones de nuestros resultados basadas en la reciprocidad y los costes psicológicos diferenciales del desempleo en todos los regímenes de prestaciones de desempleo.

Título traducido de la contribución	¿Afecta la Institución de Prestaciones por Desempleo a la Productividad de los Trabajadores? Evidencia en el campo
Idioma original	Inglés estadounidense
Páginas (desde-hasta)	1 - 18
Publicación	Management Science
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2511
Estado	Publicada - 2016

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