Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting [PDF]
The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms.
Andreas Pollak
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Temporary Layoffs and Unemployment Insurance: Is Experience Rating Desirable? [PDF]
This paper explores how the introduction of an experience rated system of unemployment insurance affects employment and welfare in a model where implicit contracts between firms and workers give rise to wage rigidities and unemployment. In the literature,
Clemens Fuest, Julia Fath
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Inequality in high-cost borrowing and unemployment insurance generosity in US states during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Nat Hum BehavBerger LM +7 more
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Essays In Unemployment And Unemployment Insurance
, 1995 This thesis examines several issues surrounding the causes of aggregate unemployment that relate to both individual work, rest, and search activities, and inter-industry labor reallocation process. On the other hand, this thesis also explores how heterogenous agents (employed and unemployed) react to a given unemployment insurance program as well as ...
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers [PDF]
This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the search intensity of risk-averse workers (the agents) is not observed by the risk-neutral insurance agency (the principal).
Jean-Olivier Hairault +3 more
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Automating benefits delivery: lowering health insurance costs for unemployment insurance recipients. [PDF]
Health Aff SchLian L, Lovchikova M, Feher A.
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The timing of parental unemployment, insurance and children's education. [PDF]
Eur SocMari G, Keizer R, van Gaalen R.
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Family Job Search, Wage Bargainings, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance [PDF]
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers.
Bertil Holmlund, Susanne Ek
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Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession. [PDF]
J Labor Econ, 2016 Mueller AI, Rothstein J, von Wachter TM.
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Provisions of the welfare state: employment protection versus unemployment insurance [PDF]
Employment protection and unemployment benefits are considered as the most prominent insurance devices for workers to protect themselves against the risk of unemployment.
Michael Neugart
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