Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested … insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers … wages. …

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary basis, we estimate the causal effect of UI cover on the self-employment …

insurance mechanisms, bride wealth qualifies as an importantsecurity enhancing institution: the arrangement covers nearly the …

This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …

contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare.Integrating the principal-agent and …

insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under risk. One of the few empirical … would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we investigate how models such as theirs … conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …

We study an insurance model characterized by a continuum of risk types, private information and a competitive supply …