We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we … rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance, and exploit variation in … unemployment insurance across and within countries to gauge workers' demand for insurance. Using a firm-level panel from 41 …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …, there is no evidence of an added-worker effect but government insurance and income pooling can mitigate the pass-through of …

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 …

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

The purpose of this note is to describe the lottery- and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with non …-convex labor supply decision, unobservable effort, and incentive ("fair") wages. The presence of indivisible labor creates a market … incompleteness, which requires that an insurance market for employment be put in operation to "complete" the market. …