Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-timeunemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as theyprefer. This paper develops a search and matching model to study the design of optimalunemployment insurance in an economy...