. It therefore seems reasonable to expect workers to try to anticipate and respond to the risk of displacement. Using 1983 … author investigates whether industry-specific measures of job loss risk are correlated with workers' propensity to cross … industry lines for new jobs. She finds that a one standard deviation increase in the risk of job loss (an 86% increase from the …

larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated …. This exercise suggests that extending the current US unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with a clear …

A well established believe in the pension industry is that collective pension funds should take more stock market risk … (compared to individual retirement accounts) since risk may be shared with future generations. We extend the OLG model of … Gollier (2008) by adding labor income risk in the spirit of Benzoni, Collin-Dufresne, and Goldstein (2007) and show that this …