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Optimal unemployment insurance for older workers
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Ménard, … - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 5/6, pp. 509-519
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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring
Setty, Ofer - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 2, pp. 693-733
I model job-search monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework, in which job-search effort is the worker’s private information. In the model, monitoring provides costly information upon which the government conditions unemployment benefits. Using a simple one-period model with...
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A policy for the size of individual unemployment accounts
Castro, Rubén; Weber, Michael; Reyes, Gonzalo - In: IZA journal of labor policy 7 (2018) 9, pp. 1-11
Individual unemployment accounts (IUAs) attenuate the moral hazard attached to unemployment insurance. However, the available literature provides no policy recommendation about what percentage of the contributions should go to IUAs. We propose criteria of actuarial neutrality and use a simple...
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Active social insurance
Røed, Knut - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for – in both unemployment and disability insurance – to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a long-lasting decline in labor force participation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687326
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Introducing unemployment insurance to developing countries
Vodopivex, Milan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
The paper analyzes key labor market and institutional features of developing countries that affect functioning of unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment...
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Partial retirement : effects on employment and implications for government budgets
Haan, Peter; Tolan, Songül; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 48, pp. 491-497
could be achieved if people retire from the work force later in life. Partial retirement, the option to work part-time while … drawing a pension before reaching the normal retirement age, could create the necessary conditions for reaching this goal. The … impact of partial retirement on employment will be simulated below. The results show that unrestricted access to partial …
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A policy for the size of individual unemployment accounts
Castro, Rubén; Weber, Michael; Reyes, Gonzalo - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 7 (2018) 9, pp. 1-11
Individual unemployment accounts (IUAs) attenuate the moral hazard attached to unemployment insurance. However, the available literature provides no policy recommendation about what percentage of the contributions should go to IUAs. We propose criteria of actuarial neutrality and use a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290394
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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring
Setty, Ofer - In: Quantitative Economics 10 (2019) 2, pp. 693-733
I model job-search monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework, in which job-search effort is the worker's private information. In the model, monitoring provides costly information upon which the government conditions unemployment benefits. Using a simple one-period model with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215384
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Active social insurance
Røed, Knut - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for - in both unemployment and disability insurance - to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a long-lasting decline in labor force participation. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331989
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Unemployment insurance with a hidden labor market
Alvarez, Fernando; Sanchez, Juan M. - In: Journal of monetary economics 56 (2009) 9, pp. 954-967
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924204