Unemployment insurance with moral hazard in a dynamic economy

作者: Cheng Wang , Stephen Williamson

DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2231(96)90002-0

关键词: Moral hazardUnemploymentFull employmentDiscouraged workerEconomicsLabour economicsUnemployment rateSubsidy

摘要: Abstract We study a dynamic model with positive gross flows between employment and unemployment. There is moral hazard associated search effort job-retention effort. A quantitative comparison of the unemployment insurance system currently in place United States an optimal shows that reduces steady state rate by 3.40 percentage points increases output 3.64%. The involves large subsidy for transition from to penalty

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