We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … insurance premia. With exclusion, not only the insurance against the fundamental risk, but also against future bad news about … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be …

between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … unemployment risk is taken into account. …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the … development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We … uncertainty about prices risk-averse producers are hypothesized to be reluctant to employ inputs with the additional effect of too …

The system of unemployment benefits and subsistence benefits in Slovakia has potentially largedisincentive effects with … respect to the outflow from unemployment to a job. Especially low educatedunemployed and unemployed with young children are ….We find no evidence of disincentive effects of the Slovak unemployment system. …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …