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 …

Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their … employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but also increases the financial gains of private … increased insurance coverage on workers' outcomes are thus ambiguous. This paper aims to separate worker and insurer responses …

This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we … develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and … (human capital) risk increases social welfare if the government adjusts the tax-and-transfer system optimally. Finally, we …

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …

with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then … standard functional form restrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance … combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly …

endogenous firing as well as a short-time work decision. In recessions, short-time work reduces the unemployment risk of workers …

We investigate financial experts' beliefs about climate risk pricing and analyze how those beliefs influence stock …

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial …