This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … less psychological harm from unemployment than do the non-religious; equally both Catholics and Protestants are less hurt … religious unemployed are less likely to be actively looking for work). In panel data, as implied by insurance, the religious …

A common finding of the optimal unemployment insurance literature is that the optimal UI replacement rate is around 50 … unemployment benefits are the only government spending activity. In this paper I show that recommendations for optimal UI levels …

that the introduction of an unemployment insurance program and/or a universal basic income system help eliminate child …

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the …). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, the insurance agency is not able to induce older workers to search … search intensity of risk-averse workers (the agents) is not observed by the risk-neutral insurance agency (the principal …

At the end of working life, as well as reducing unemployment benefits, the unemployment-insurance agency could apply …. Finally, even in the special case where search intensity is zero close to retirement, perfect risk-sharing across unemployment …

. In a fi…rst-best allocation of resources, unemployment benefi…ts should provide perfect insurance against the … rate of unemployment. When workers have some bargaining power, which prevents the provision of full insurance, it is … unemployment risk, layoff taxes are necessary to induce employers to internalize the cost of dismissing an employee but should not …

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal-agent model, where the …). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, the insurance agency is not able to induce older workers to search … search intensity of risk-averse workers (the agents) is not observed by the risk-neutral insurance agency (the principal …

unemployment insurance that takes into account the decrease in the level of benefits over time. A discount factor is introduced …) Unemployment insurance size negatively depends on both the average level and the heterogeneity of unemployment risk ii) The …Degressivity of unemployment benefits is a major feature of social protection in most industrialised countries: the …

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model …

labour market institutions (Social Dialogue, Employment Protection Legislation, Unemployment Insurance and Employment …