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Optimal unemployment insurance [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 1997 This paper considers the design of an optimal unemployment insurance system. The problem is modeled as a repeated principalagent problem involving a risk‐averse agent‐the unemployed worker‐and a risk‐neutral principal, which cannot monitor the agent's search effort.
Stephen Woodbury, Carl Davidson
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Unemployment insurance benefits and income smoothing
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2019 Economic theory predicts that top executives and lower-level employees have incentives to smooth income due to compensating wage differential costs and fear of job loss.
Tharindra Ranasinghe, Jeffrey Ng
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Unemployment Risk Estimation and Adverse-selection in Coverage of Unemployment Insurance in Iran [PDF]
جستارهای اقتصادی, 2022 Unemployment insurance is the most basic social security plan in the world. However, the problems of moral hazard and adverse selection have confined unemployment insurance to low-risk occupational groups.
Seyed Saeed Malek sadati +2 more
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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration in Yazd [PDF]
سیاستگذاری اقتصادی, 2022 Introduction: Unemployment duration is the length of time that an unemployed person looks for a job. It is an indicator of labor market performance. In other words, a longer period of unemployment duration reflects the poor performance of labor market ...
Mohammad Ali Feizpour +2 more
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Unemployment Insurance in Survey and Administrative Data
FEDS Notes, 2022 Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits were a central part of the social safety net during the Covid-19 recession. UI benefits, however, are severely understated in surveys.
Jeff Larrimore +2 more
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Unemployment Insurance and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States.
Demography, 2022 Over the past two decades, opioid overdose deaths contributed to the dramatic rise in all-cause mortality among non-Hispanic Whites. To date, efforts among scholars to understand the role of local area labor market conditions on opioid overdose mortality
Pinghui Wu, M. Evangelist
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Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-up
Social Science Research Network, 2022 This paper uses administrative data from Washington State to quantify the role of employers in the incomplete take-up of unemployment insurance (UI).
Marta Lachowska +2 more
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Funding Discussions Regarding the Severance Pay and Unemployment Insurance Dilemma in Turkey
Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2021 Unemployment insurance and severance pay mandated in passive labor market policies are important regulations aimed at eliminating the negative results of unemployment. Severance pay in Turkey was implemented in 1936 with the first labor law, Law No. 3008.
Mustafa Şen
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FINANCING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [PDF]
National Tax Journal, 2014 Following the Great Recession, the unemployment insurance (UI) trust funds in most states became insolvent, requiring the states to borrow from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to finance benefit payments. This article describes the basics of UI financing and reviews the origins of the financial crisis facing the federal-state UI system.
Wayne Vroman, Stephen A. Woodbury
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Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021 To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are, therefore, highest for firms after downturns, potentially hampering labor-market recovery.
Andrew C. Johnston
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