Optimal Unemployment Insurance

By A. Pollak. 2007

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Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design (2014, unknown): “In particular, the wage tax could be negative at the beginning of the unemployment spell representing a bonus for exiting unemployment quickly (Hopenhayn and Nicolini, 1997).”
Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data (2012, background): “Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997) extend Shavell and Weiss analysis to allow for a wage tax after re-employment, but focus on the case with no saving or borrowing. They show that the optimal path of benets is again declining in this environment, but that there is a signicant welfare gain from levying”
Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods (2008, methodology): “This permits calculation of dWdb without the assumptions made in the structural studies for tractability, such as no private insurance or no borrowing (Hansen and ·Imrohoro¼glu 1992, Hopenhayn and Nicolini 1997).”
Optimal unemployment insurance in an equilibrium business-cycle model (2015, background): “macro-elasticities Comparison of our results to Landais et al. (2013) illustrates that the choice of modelling framework can be crucial for optimal policy predictions. This raises the question of how to distinguish empirically between the various search models used in the literature on optimal unemp”
Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany (2013, unknown): “For the job search technology, we follow Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997), Lentz (2009), and Shimer and Werning (2008) and assume an exponential specification:”