larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given that the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated … heterogeneity. This exercise suggests that extending the current U.S. unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with …

country model in which people move to maximize expected utility. Wages are set by unions, and unemployment emerges as an … model in which wage setting does not depend on unemployment benefits and taxes. These effects are dampened by the …

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … employment subsample 1975-1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 …, marital status etc. we identify significant differences in the first three quintiles of the unemployment duration distribution …

unemployment risk. We use unemployment insurance (UI) benefit laws as a proxy for unemployment risk and multiple measures of tax … benefits lower labor unemployment risk and, hence provide firms with an opportunity to exhibit more tax aggressiveness …. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find a negative relation between firms' tax aggressiveness and unemployment risk. In …

unemployment risk. We exploit changes in state unemployment insurance laws as a source of variation in the costs borne by workers … during layoff spells. We find that higher unemployment benefits lead to increased corporate leverage, particularly for labor …-intensive and financially constrained firms. We estimate the ex ante, indirect costs of financial distress due to unemployment risk …

unemployment risks on individual wages are analyzed in chapter 2. Building on a portfolio model for the labor market, the effects … unemployment risk is negative. Chapter 3 focuses on the effects of the reduction of unemployment benefits in the course of the … German Hartz reforms. For men and women in East and West Germany we find that the reform-induced decrease in unemployment …