Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
realistically calibrated model of the U.S. economy the two effects nearly offset each other – the optimal rate of asset-testing is …We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state …