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State, class, and bureaucracy : Canadian unemployment, insurance and public policy
Pal, Leslie Alexander - 1988
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Ein funktionstüchtiges System privater Arbeitslosenversicherung
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
Es wird untersucht, wie ein System privater Versicherungen gegen das Risiko der Arbeitslosigkeit beschaffen sein sollte … darauf basierenden individuellen Prämien bei alternativen Leistungen der Arbeitslosenversicherung entworfen. Für die Seite … privater Arbeitslosenversicherung eingegangen. <p>The authors suggest a dual-system model of private unemployment insurance …
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Sick of being “Activated?”
Hofmann, Barbara - In: Empirical Economics 47 (2014) 3, pp. 1103-1127
Do unemployment insurance (UI) benefit recipients take sick leave more often when facing “activation” by the employment office? We answer this question using administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency on vacancy referrals sent to UI benefit recipients. Applying duration...
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Understanding Severance Pay
Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Severance pay, a fixed-sum payment to workers at job separation, has been the focus of intense policy concern for the last several decades, but much of this concern is unearned. The design of the ideal separation package is outlined and severance pay emerges as a natural component of job...
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JOB SEARCH COSTS AND INCENTIVES
Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Ro'i Zultan - Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev - 2013
The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with fric- tion that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is non- contractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect...
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors … benefits that are unrelated to business risk. Indeed, we argue that the self-employed's incentives to insure themselves stem …
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Unemployment Insurance under Moral Hazard and Limited Commitment: Public versus Private Provision
Thomas, Jonathan; Worral, Tim - School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2004
This paper analyses a model of private unemployment insurance under limited commitment and a model of public unemployment insurance subject to moral hazard in an economy with a continuum of agents and an infinite time horizon. The dynamic and steady-state properties of the optimum private...
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Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Quantitative Implications for Unemployment Insurance
Fuller, David L. - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2010
I construct a dynamic contracting model of optimal unemployment insurance with adverse selection and moral hazard that captures the transition from unemployment to non-participation observed in the data, which the standard moral hazard model fails to capture. My model generates both qualitative...
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Active Unemployment Insurance
Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for – in both unemployment and disability insurance – to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a long-lasting decline in labor force participation....
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