I interpret the empirical evidence on government spending multipliers using an equilibrium model of unemployment in … that accounts for growth in the working population. At insurance levels below a certain threshold, the positive effects of … consumption cost of unemployment …

transactions cost-mobility constraints. Contracts provide full unemployment insurance for risks that are diversifiable by pooling … response to demand and productivity shifts. Unemployment is sustained because the marginal value of labor is not equated across … among firms. Nondiversifiable (macro) risks are only partially shifted,largely through self-insurance (contingency saving …

transactions cost-mobility constraints. Contracts provide full unemployment insurance for risks that are diversifiable by pooling … response to demand and productivity shifts. Unemployment is sustained because the marginal value of labor is not equated across … among firms. Nondiversifiable (macro) risks are only partially shifted,largely through self-insurance (contingency saving …

Arbeitslosenversicherung wird auch als eine der Ursachen für die zu konstatierende Persistenz der Arbeitslosigkeit auf dem deutschen … Arbeitsmarkt angesehen. Neben der Kritik am bisherigen System hat das Angebot einer privaten Arbeitslosenversicherung in … Deutschland die Diskussion sowohl über die Privatisierung der gesetzlichen Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch über die …

First published in 1986, Insurance for Unemployment proposes a radical approach to the reform of unemployment and … of social insurance, and the book provides an original basis for privatising unemployment insurance. Conventional … social insurance. The book develops the ethical, economic and actuarial case for the proposed reforms, whereby the individual …