Pallage, Stephane; Zimmermann, Christian - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 1998
large cuts in optimal unemployment insurance benefits when agents are asked to vote on these benefits. We find that it takes … a quite large proportion of "shirkers" to bend the generosity of the unemployment insurance program desired by the … out of unemployment. Our results have important implications in the light of recent unemployment insurance reforms. <P …