Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has focused on the costs of the program, in terms of the distorting … effects of generous UI benefits on worker and firm behavior. For assessing the optimal size of an unemployment insurance … replacement rate leads to a consumption fall upon unemployment which is 2.7% smaller. Over this period, the average fall in …

Private consumption demand falls in response to increased unemployment risk during a recession, as households increase … unemployment risk is more important than realized unemployment shocks in accounting for durable expenditure dynamics during … recessions, while the opposite is true for nondurables. The importance of anticipation of future unemployment risk also means …

Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has focused on the costs of the program, in terms of the distorting … effects of generous UI benefits on worker and firm behavior. For assessing the optimal size of an unemployment insurance … replacement rate leads to a consumption fall upon unemployment which is 2.7% smaller. Over this period, the average fall in …