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Essays in Macroeconomic Development
Essays in Macroeconomic Development
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103152
- ISBN
- 9798280757233
- DDC
- 320
- 저자명
- Jaar, Daniel.
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Macroeconomic Development
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Pennsylvania, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 123 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Ordonez, Guillermo.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation studies topics in insurance, fiscal policy and redistribution in developing countries. It consists of two separate papers, each presented in a different chapter.The first paper, titled "Self-employment as Self-insurance'', investigates the role of microentrepreneurship as a substitute for unemployment insurance in emerging economies. Using microenterprise surveys from Latin America, I document that a significant proportion of microentrepreneurs-ranging from 15% to 39%-start firms because they do not find jobs. These necessity entrepreneurs operate smaller, less profitable firms and experience higher income gains when transitioning to wage employment. I propose a two-sector model of entrepreneurship with labor market frictions, where workers can become self-employed to avoid unemployment. I calibrate the model for Mexico and show that self-insurance through self-employment decreases unemployment by 1.2 p.p. and reduces welfare losses due to unemployment risk by 22%. Consequently, enforcing costly taxes and regulations among informal microenterprises might harm workers' ability to self-insure. Despite the presence of this additional channel of insurance, introducing a non-contributory unemployment insurance system increases welfare and is strongly progressive.The second paper, "Inflation, Informality and Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries'', coauthored with Joao Ritto, studies the public finance implications of the underground economy. The scale of the former limits the effectiveness of standard tax instruments, often justifying the use of inflation as an alternative revenue source. Informality also has distributional consequences: informal businesses tend to be small, rely heavily on cash, and supply a larger share of goods to poorer households. We present a general equilibrium model where firms decide on formality status, and households choose their consumption bundles, allowing us to examine these distributional aspects of informality. We use the model to study the trade-offs between different revenue-equivalent combinations of inflation and consumption taxes. We calibrate the model for Peru and find a notable disparity in effective tax rates across wealth levels under a benchmark 4% inflation rate and an 18% consumption tax: the bottom income quintile pays an effective tax rate equivalent to just 55% of that of the top quintile. Reducing inflation from 4% to 0% requires raising consumption taxes by 2.2 percentage points. This shift benefits the poorest 90.7% of households at the expense of the wealthiest 9.3%. This would increase the welfare of the bottom quintile by 0.25% in consumption-equivalent units, whereas the top quintile experiences a 0.01% decrease. These results underscore that the presence of large informal sectors has substantial distributional implications for taxation.
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 키워드
- Microenterprises
- 키워드
- Self-employment
- 키워드
- Fiscal policy
- 기타저자
- University of Pennsylvania Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0175.
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■653 ▼aMicroenterprises
■653 ▼aSelf-employment
■653 ▼aUnemployment risk
■653 ▼aFiscal policy
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