Efficient unemployment insurance:

This paper constructs a tractable general equilibrium model of search with risk-aversion. An increase in risk-aversion reduces wages, unemployment, and investment. Unemployment insurance (UI) has the reverse effect due to market generated moral hazard: insured workers seek high wage jobs with high u...

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Hauptverfasser: Acemoglu, Daron 1967- (VerfasserIn), Shimer, Robert 1968- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. 1998
Schriftenreihe:National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 6686
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Zusammenfassung:This paper constructs a tractable general equilibrium model of search with risk-aversion. An increase in risk-aversion reduces wages, unemployment, and investment. Unemployment insurance (UI) has the reverse effect due to market generated moral hazard: insured workers seek high wage jobs with high unemployment risk. An economy with risk-neutral workers achieves maximal output without any UI. In contrast, in an economy with risk-averse workers, a positive level of UI maximizes output. Therefore, moderate UI not only improves risk-sharing, but also increases output.
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