Risk-Based Selection in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence and Implications
نویسندگان
چکیده
This paper studies whether adverse selection can rationalize a universal mandate for unemployment insurance (UI). Building on unique feature of the policy in Sweden, where workers opt supplemental UI coverage above minimum mandate, we provide first direct evidence and derive its implications design. We find that risk is more than twice as high who buy coverage. Exploiting variation prices, show how 25–30 percent this correlation driven by risk-based selection, with remainder moral hazard. Due to hazard despite mandating individuals low willingness-to-pay would be suboptimal. under which conditions design leaving choice dominate system single mandate. In design, using subsidy optimal complementary use (JEL D82, G22, J65)
منابع مشابه
evidence of adverse selection in irans health insurance market
در این تحقیق به مطالعه وجود انتخاب نامساعد(کژ گزینی) در بازار بیمه درمان تکمیلی ایران پرداخته شده است. داده های مورد نیاز توسط پرسشنامه و به روش نمونه گیری خوشه ای جمع آوری شده است. پرسشنامه ها در میان افراد شاغل ساکن شهر تهران توریع شد. در این تحقیق با استفاده از تخمین دو مدل لجستیک و به دست آوردن ضریب همبستگی میان تقاضای بیمه درمان تکمیلی و رخداد خسارت به بررسی موضوع مورد نظر پرداخته شده است....
15 صفحه اولPricing Unemployment Insurance in Iran
Abstract Employees always concern about losing their job, or in other word, losing their income resources. For this purpose, governments require strong protection system for covering these concerns. The Unemployment Insurance (UI) program’s can be used for achieving this goal. Based on article five of Iranian unemployment Insurance law, premium is four percent of employee’s salary while emplo...
متن کاملUnemployment Insurance and Unemployment: Implications of the Reemployment Bonus Experiments
We translate the results of the three reemployment bonus experiments that were conducted during the 1980s into (a) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of unemployment; and (b) impacts of adding 1 week to the potential duration of UI benefits on the expected duration of unemployment. Our approach is to use an equi...
متن کاملDiagnosing Unemployment Insurance in the Golestan Province
This research aimed to diagnose the reason to increase in the total number of unemployment insurance applicants (claimants) in the Golestan province in order to find realistic solutions. From the perspective of data collection, this research is a field-based, in terms of controlling variables is non-experimental research and with regard to purpose is applied research. Quantitative and qualitati...
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: The American Economic Review
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2640-205X', '2640-2068']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180820