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This paper investigates the optimal retirement of an individual in the presence of involuntary unemployment risks and … emphasized in recent studies. We also find that an individual with high leisure demand after retirement reduces consumption … during retirement and increases stockholdings as retirement time approaches …
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We develop a new approach for solving the optimal retirement problem for an individual with an unhedgeable income risk … optimal retirement problem is to determine the individual's optimal consumption and investment behaviors and optimal … retirement time simultaneously. We introduce a new convex-duality approach for reformulating the original retirement problem and …
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I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given that the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I...
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We develop a retirement model with long-run income risk in which the wealth threshold for retirement is shown to be a …-dimensional retirement problem. The two-dimensional retirement framework has changed quantitative and qualitative features of retirement … strategies as suggested by the literature. Having derived the optimal life-cycle consumption/savings, investment, and retirement …
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The paper examines the general equilibrium effects of benefits to the unemployed and the taxes to pay for them in a two country model in which people move to maximize expected utility. Wages are set by unions, and unemployment emerges as an equilibrium phenomenon. Wage setting institutions are...
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This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and unobservable effort choice affecting the distribution of...
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We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two-country business cycle model with incomplete financial markets and frictional labor markets where the unemployment insurance scheme operates across both countries. Cross-country...
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In this paper, we document that a more generous unemployment insurance (UI) system shifts labor supply from safer to riskier firms and reduces the compensating wage differential that riskier firms are required to pay. Reallocation of labor supply towards riskier firms has real implications for...
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We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two-country business cycle model with incomplete financial markets and frictional labor markets where the unemployment insurance scheme operates across both countries. Cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981895