Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Employment History
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Employment History
In existing unemployment insurance programmes, it is standard to condition eligibility on the previous employment record of unemployed workers. The purpose of this article is to study conditions under which the efficient contract exhibits these properties. In order to do so, we characterize the optimal unemployment insurance contract in asymmetric information environments in which workers exper...
متن کاملOptimal Unemployment Insurance
We investigate the design of an optimal Unemployment Insurance program using an equilibrium search and matching model calibrated using data from the reemployment bonus experiments and secondary sources. We examine (a) the optimal potential duration of UI benefits, (b) the optimal UI replacement rate when the potential duration of benefits is optimal, and (c) the optimal UI replacement rate when...
متن کاملOptimal Unemployment Insurance
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your perso...
متن کاملFiscal Externalities and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
In analyses of the optimal design of government programs, an important consideration is the extent to which a program can impact labour market outcomes. Typically, such analyses consider one government program in isolation, abstracting away from other roles of government, and thereby ignoring “fiscal externalities,” or the effects of the program’s labour market impacts on income tax revenues. T...
متن کاملOptimal Unemployment Insurance and Cyclical Fluctuations
We study the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an environment with moral hazard and cyclical fluctuations. The optimal unemployment insurance contract balances the insurance motive to provide consumption for the unemployed with the provision of incentives to search for a job. This balance is affected by aggregate conditions, as recessions are characterized by reductions in job finding...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Review of Economic Studies
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0034-6527,1467-937X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937x.2009.00555.x