of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own … labour supply incurs positive marginal disutility, we allow negative welfare effects of unemployment. We also compare … income ; redistribution ; basic income ; unemployment benefits ; happiness ; well-being …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple … margins. For given unemployment, lowering UB and raising BI always benefits the unemployed, raises utilitarian welfare and … benefits a poor majority. Reducing unemployment and UB simultaneously can benefit a majority of the employed as well as all …

large panel dataset of European countries, we find that individuals who experienced high unemployment under a regime of low … unemployment benefits are more in favor of redistribution later in life and state an orientation more oriented towards the left …. However, negative economic shocks in an environment with a very generous unemployment insurance are related to less support of …