Unemployment insurance and market structure
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Labor Market Cycles and Unemployment Insurance Eligibility
If entitlement to UI bene ts must be earned with employment, generous UI is an additional bene t to an employment relationship, so it promotes job creation. If individuals are risk neutral, UI is fairly priced, and the UI system prevents moralhazard unemployed workers, the generosity of UI has no e¤ect on unemployment. As with Ricardian Equivalence, this result should be useful to pinpoint the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(93)90022-l