Optimal Policy with Informal Sector and Endogenous Savings

Number: 
833
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
D91, J32, J64, J65
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper analyzes the effect of social security and lump sum layoff payment in an economy with an informal sector and savings, where the search effort is unobserved. I characterize the optimal consumption/search/non-participant strategy assuming that wo