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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 AbstractBased on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship, as well as subsequent earnings levels.
Røed, Knut, Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik
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Automation, unemployment, and insurance [PDF]
Ethics and Information Technology, 2022 AbstractHow should policymakers respond to the risk of technological unemployment that automation brings? First, I develop a procedure for answering this question that consults, rather than usurps, individuals’ own attitudes and ambitions towards that risk. I call this the insurance argument.
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Unemployment and insurance [PDF]
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1983 This paper elaborates equilibrium properties of contract labor markets when cost barriers limit labor mobility in response to demand and productivity shifts. Unemployment is sustained because the marginal value of labor is not equated across all firms; however the equilibrium contract optimally allocates a worker's time between market and nonmarket ...
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020 The Swedish public unemployment insurance program is characterized by its governance structure involving union-linked insurance funds, famously known as the Ghent system. This paper argues that the unions’ strongly entrenched interest in the provision of
Jayeon Lindellee
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Efficient Unemployment Insurance [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 1998 This paper constructs a tractable general equilibrium model of search with risk-aversion. An increase in risk-aversion reduces wages, unemployment, and investment. Unemployment insurance (UI) has the reverse effect due to market generated moral hazard: insured workers seek high wage jobs with high unemployment risk. An economy with risk-neutral workers
Acemoglu, Daron, Shimer, Robert
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Optimal unemployment insurance [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 1995 Abstract We investigate the design of an optimal unemployment insurance program using an equilibrium search model calibrated using data from the reemployment bonus experiments. There are three main conclusions. First, insurance considerations suggest that the potential duration of Ul benefits would be unlimited under an optimal program.
Carl Davidson, Stephen A. Woodbury
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How does sustainable human resource management contribute to managerial well-being? [PDF]
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of SciencesThis study examines how sustainable human resource management (HRM) contributes to managerial well-being in the Estonian public sector, addressing the gap that HRMâwell-being research remains largely employee-centric and provides limited insight into ...
Maris Zernand-Vilson +2 more
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Is Property an Insurance or an Additional Burden? Financial Stress Among Homeowners in Europe
Social Inclusion, 2023 A crucial function of wealth is to protect individuals from the consequences of adverse life events. However, sometimes wealth also implies additional financial risks. In addition to the insurance function of homeownership (the most common form of wealth)
Martin Heidenreich, Sven Broschinski
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Research on the Coverage Expansion and Optimization Strategy of Unemployment Insurance System Based on the Comparison between China and Britain [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesA multi-level social security system is being proposed by the Chinese government, and all social insurance systems must meet the requirements of universality and ensure full coverage.
Xiao Ruolan
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Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Spells [PDF]
Econometrica, 1990 This paper tests the effects of the level and length of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment durations. The paper particularly studies individual behavior during the weeks just prior to when benefits lapse. Higher UI benefits are found to have a strong negative effect on the probability of leaving unemployment.
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