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The equilibrium impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment


The equilibrium impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment

Conclusions. We have presented new evidence regarding the macro effect on unemployment of increasing UI benefit generosity. The empirical strategy has been to ...

The equilibrium impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment

Our estimates suggest that the macro elasticity of an increase in UI on unemployment is around 3. This is twice as large as the corresponding “micro elasticity” ...

The General Equilibrium Impacts of Unemployment Insurance

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions increase unemployment by ...

These Caps Spilleth Over: Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment ...

The design of US unemployment insurance (UI) policy—which features benefits assigned as a percentage of past wages up to a cap—engenders tests ...

The General Equilibrium Impacts of Unemployment Insurance

The general equilibrium effect reduces the impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment by 40%: increasing benefit duration by 10% increases unemployment ...

The equilibrium impact of unemployment insurance on ... - EconPapers

By Peter Fredriksson and Martin Söderström; Abstract: We estimate the “macro effect” of an increase in the generosity of unemployment ...

Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession

Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job search decisions by the unemployed ...

The general equilibrium impacts of unemployment insurance

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions increase ...

These Caps Spilleth Over: Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment ...

The design of US unemployment insurance (UI) policy--which features benefits assigned as a percentage of past wages up to a cap--engenders tests ...

The general equilibrium impacts of unemployment insurance

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions increase unemployment by ...

efficient-unemployment-insurance.pdf - MIT Economics

An increase in risk aversion reduces wages, unemployment, and investment. Unemployment insurance has the opposite effect: insured workers seek high-wage jobs ...

Unemployment Insurance: Economic Lessons from the Last Two ...

There is a broad consensus about the stimulating effects of unemployment insurance on consumer spending. Unemployed workers suffer large declines in their ...

Understanding the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Insurance ...

Unemployment insurance (UI) allows consumers to cope with the risk of large fluctuations in income due to job loss. It provides a method of smoothing ...

The Effects of Unemployment Compensation in General Equilibrium ...

Indeed, an increase in subsidized benefits to the unemployed - of a general or a specific nature - could have the effect that periods of unemployment spells ...

Supply and Demand Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefit ...

The point estimate is larger than the effect on employment in column (i), suggesting that, in addition to the effect of fewer workers becoming ...

General Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Compensation with ...

The analysis is based on an aggregate model with search and matching in which unemployment compensation affects the wage determination process and the number of ...

Understanding the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Insurance ...

The direct effect of tax and the UI benefit creates a conflict between the unemployed consumers and employed consumers. 3. Considering endogenous unemployment ...

Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Unemployed workers randomly search for jobs that pay different wages and accept a job if the offered wage is higher than their reservation wage.

Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Search Equilibrium - jstor

A welfare analysis of UI policies thus requires a unified treatment of the insurance benefits provided by UI as well as of the adverse incentive effects induced ...

DP2126 Equilibrium Unemployment Insurance - CEPR

The interaction between the political decision about the level of the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a ...