We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be … profitable for a relatively short exclusion length of one year. To stimulate the emergence of a private unemployment insurance …

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 … and that the provision of unemployment insurance justifies a positive marginal tax rate even without income heterogeneity …

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 … facilitate a balancing of the budget has strong adverse effects on unemployment and real GDP. …

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 …