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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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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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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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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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Jurnal Aplikasi Bisnis dan Manajemen, 2023 Unemployment is one of the economic disorders that affect the economic growth rate. In addition, the recent pandemic outbreak has turned the medical crisis into a global financial downturn, threatening the health and employment of people around the world.
Quisty Prima Zanellia +2 more
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Equilibrium Unemployment Insurance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 In this paper, we incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model with search-matching frictions and on-the-job learning-by-doing. The model shows that societies populated by identical rational agents, but differing in the initial distribution of human capital across agents, may choose very different
Hassler, John +3 more
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Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity? Evidence from France
Journal of Finance, 2020 We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship.
J. Hombert +7 more
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Journal of Applied Psychology, 2020 While social science has substantially documented the individual experience of unemployment, less is known about the role of contextual variables. One contextual factor that is important for unemployed job seekers is the unemployment insurance (UI) that ...
Connie R. Wanberg +4 more
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Compulsory unemployment insurance in Italy
PSL Quarterly Review, 2014 The article outlines the essential features of the Italian system of unemployment insurance with special reference to the field of application; the conditions limiting the enjoyment of insurance benefits; the amount of the insurance benefits and ...
G. PAPA
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The health effects of US unemployment insurance policy: does income from unemployment benefits prevent cardiovascular disease? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 OBJECTIVE: Previous studies suggest that unemployment predicts increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but whether unemployment insurance programs mitigate this risk has not been assessed.
Stefan Walter +2 more
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