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The Sharing of Macroeconomic Risk: Who Loses (and Gains) from Macroeconomic Shocks
Ahrend, Rudiger; Arnold, Jens; Moeser, Charlotte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
, the paper discusses possibilities for international insurance as well as shock-spreading and risk-mitigating policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143621
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How to Cope with Labour Market Policy Tools in Economic Downturn: Finnish Evidence
Räisänen, Heikki - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2003
This paper discusses the Finnish experiences of Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) across the economic cycle, especially in economic downturn. Cuts in unemployment spell duration have been the main factors to contribute in decreasing the unemployment in the recent years. Subsidised employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005546002
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Wealth and Labor Supply Heterogeneity
Mustre-del-Rio, Jose - In: Review of Economic Dynamics
This paper examines the importance of ex-ante heterogeneity for understanding the relationship between wealth and labor supply when markets are incomplete. An infinite horizon model is estimated where labor supply is indivisible and households are ex-ante heterogeneous in their labor disutility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945602
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Insurance in Extended Family Networks
Attanasio, Orazio; Mommaerts, Corina; Meghir, Costas - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2015
We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insured, having accounted for public insurance programs. We apply our framework to extended family networks in the United … insurance for such idiosyncratic shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210466
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Effects of Wealth and Income Uncertainty on the Decision to Work, to Search or Not to Participate at All
Maidorn, Susanne - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345480
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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Should Unemployment Insurance be Asset-Tested
Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - CESifo - 2013
We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877939
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Should Unemployment Insurance Be Asset-Tested?
Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884271
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Should unemployment insurance be asset-tested?
Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - In: Review of Economic Dynamics
We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951569