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Should unemployment insurance cover partial unemployment? : time-limited benefits may yield significant welfare gains and help underemployed part-time workers move to full-time emp...
Spector, Susanne Ek - 2015
A considerable share of the labor force consists of underemployed part-time workers: employed workers who, for various reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is controversial. On the one hand, such benefits can...
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Should we insure workers or jobs during recessions?
Giupponi, Giulia; Landais, Camille; Lapeyre, Alice - 2021
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How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims : Evidence From Senegal
Ndiaye, Abdoulaye; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Cisse, Abdoulaye; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in low-income countries characterized by high levels of informality, weak enforcement of UI claims, and job search frictions. We assess the impact of UI on workers' welfare in the presence of moral hazard and liquidity...
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Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System
Skandalis, Daphné; Marinescu, Ioana; Massenkoff, Maxim N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system operates as a federal-state partnership, where states have considerable autonomy to decide on specific UI rules. This has allowed for systematically stricter rules in states with a larger Black population. We study how these differences in state rules...
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Risk taking and optimal contracts for money managers
Palomino, Frédéric - 1999
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Is there too much benchmarking in asset management?
Kashyap, Anil K.; Kovrijnykh, Natalia; Li, Jian; … - 2021
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Credit constraints, endogenous innovation, and price setting in international trade
Eckel, Carsten; Unger, Florian - 2016
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Mandatory disclosure and financial contagion
Alvarez, Fernando; Barlevy, Gadi - 2015
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The decision to delay social security benefits : theory and evidence
Shoven, John B.; Slavov, Sita N. - 2012
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Target Retirement Fund : A Variant on Target Date Funds that uses Deferred Life Annuities rather than Bonds to Reduce Risk as Retirement Approaches
Shoven, John B.; Walton, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper evaluates a new variant of the popular target date funds used in employer-based retirement savings plans. We … call this new variant a "target retirement plan." Instead of increasing the allocation to bond funds as retirement … approaches, a target retirement fund gradually purchases deferred life annuities beginning at age 50. In the particular straw …
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