-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … links administrative social insurance with survey data. Exploiting reform- and age-based exogenous variations in potential … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for …

would provide more insurance if based on lifetime instead of annual earnings. Requiring wealthy individuals to repay social … assistance received when younger would strengthen the insurance and redistributive functions of social assistance. …

lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …