I interpret the empirical evidence on government spending multipliers using an equilibrium model of unemployment in … that accounts for growth in the working population. At insurance levels below a certain threshold, the positive effects of … consumption cost of unemployment …

transactions cost-mobility constraints. Contracts provide full unemployment insurance for risks that are diversifiable by pooling … response to demand and productivity shifts. Unemployment is sustained because the marginal value of labor is not equated across … among firms. Nondiversifiable (macro) risks are only partially shifted,largely through self-insurance (contingency saving …

transactions cost-mobility constraints. Contracts provide full unemployment insurance for risks that are diversifiable by pooling … response to demand and productivity shifts. Unemployment is sustained because the marginal value of labor is not equated across … among firms. Nondiversifiable (macro) risks are only partially shifted,largely through self-insurance (contingency saving …

Arbeitslosenversicherung wird auch als eine der Ursachen für die zu konstatierende Persistenz der Arbeitslosigkeit auf dem deutschen … Arbeitsmarkt angesehen. Neben der Kritik am bisherigen System hat das Angebot einer privaten Arbeitslosenversicherung in … Deutschland die Diskussion sowohl über die Privatisierung der gesetzlichen Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch über die …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … UI choice process. Results show that the causal effect of insurance on the probability of starting up a venture is …

influencing the risk perception of insurance policyholders namely, political-legal, market fluctuations, crime and unemployment … little research has investigated the perceptions and attitudes expressed by insurance policyholders. Therefore, to bridge … insurance policyholders in Gauteng. This will inevitably assist insurers to retain more clients as they will have a better …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …

due to two particular forms of insurance: the UK tax and transfer system and, even more importantly on average, the … in labour market scarring and insurance is key to understanding why parental incomes insure so much of the shock: lower …