) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …

. Job displacement insurance is presumably designed to offset these losses, but evidence suggests that consumption smoothing … reemployment wage insurance could fully cover these losses, but are costly to provide. Severance pay has emerged as a supplemental …, if much criticized, instrument. Moral hazard limitations on unemployment insurance generosity mean that severance pay …

spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires both unemployment benefits and wage insurance …, supply difficulties limit actual-loss insurance, and separation packages typically include partial unemployment insurance and … integration of these insurance instruments in this complex planning environment. One important implication: given the structure of …