selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

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

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely to retire for health reasons(affordability proposition), and (ii) that health …

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 …

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 …

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …