Optimal unemployment insurance for older workers

This paper studies the optimal unemployment insurance for older workers in a repeated principal–agent model, where the search intensity of risk-averse workers (the agents) is not observed by the risk-neutral insurance agency (the principal). When unemployment benefits are the only available tool, th...

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Volume:	96
Main Author:	Hairault, Jean-Olivier Langot, François Ménard, Sébastien Sopraseuth, Thepthida
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	LAUSANNE Elsevier B.V 01.06.2012 ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA Elsevier
published in:	Journal of public economics Vol. 96; no. 5-6; pp. 509 - 519
ORCID:	0000-0002-7458-0365 0000-0003-4951-8364
Data of publication:	June 2012
ISSN:	0047-2727 1879-2316
EISSN:	1879-2316
Discipline:	Economics Mathematics Political Science
Subjects:	Unemployment insurance Recursive contracts Retirement Moral hazard Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Employment Analysis Insurance Aged Pensions Unemployment Economics and Finance Humanities and Social Sciences JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers/J.J6.J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers/J.J6.J65 - Unemployment Insurance • Severance Pay • Plant Closings [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance Unemployment insurance,Retirement,Recursive contracts,Moral hazard JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C6 - Mathematical Methods • Programming Models • Mathematical and Simulation Modeling/C.C6.C61 - Optimization Techniques • Programming Models • Dynamic Analysis J65 J64 Unemployment insurance Recursive contracts Retirement C61 Moral hazard SOCIAL-SECURITY EMPLOYMENT AGE
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