The Canadian unemployment insurance program is designed to reflect the varying risk of joblessness across regions … unemployment rate. We use a dynamic, heterogeneous-agent model calibrated to Canada to analyze voters preferences between a … uniformly generous unemployment insurance and the current system with asymmetric generosity. We find that Canada's unusual …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with a universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

large cuts in optimal unemployment insurance benefits when agents are asked to vote on these benefits. We find that it takes … a quite large proportion of "shirkers" to bend the generosity of the unemployment insurance program desired by the … out of unemployment. Our results have important implications in the light of recent unemployment insurance reforms. <P …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with a universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

unemployment insurance programs to alleviate. We tackle this question in a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … an exogenous stochastic process matching key US data. The generosity of the unemployment insurance program is determined … by voting. We run a series of experiments to contrast the optimal public insurance schemes in worlds with and without …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with a universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …