distortions caused by public unemployment insurance (UI), but only if firms have access to private insurance. Otherwise firms … STC is substantially less generous than UI even when firms have access to private insurance, and equally generous STC is …

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 choice of wage earners after instrumenting for the UI choice. The instruments we use are based on a series of policy …

as expenditure neutral: in the absence of premium differentiation the cost of financing UI is modeled as a wage tax …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded into the UI system. We … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …