Efficient Unemployment Insurance
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...MPa, section 4 Montgomery (1991), Peters (1991), Moen (1997), Shimer (1996), Acemoglu and Shimer (1999a), Acemoglu and Shimer (1999b),Julien, Kennes, and King (2000), Burdett, Shi, and Wright (2001), Shi (2002), Coles and Eeckhout (2003)....
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...Now, we have to determine ub and ug separately, and the aggregate production of bad and good 12 See Acemoglu and Shimer (1999b, 2000) for a detailed analysis of directed search with wage posting. intermediate goods are Yb 5 (1 2 ub)l and Yg 5 (1 2 ug)(1 2 l), where l is the fraction of workers applying to the bad-job sector....
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...None of these studies (except in part Acemoglu and Shimer 1999a) shares the result that minimum wages and unemployment insurance improve the composition of jobs, since this feature crucially relies on search and on the heterogeneity of jobs....
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...Now, we have to determine ub and ug separately, and the aggregate production of bad and good 12 See Acemoglu and Shimer (1999b, 2000) for a detailed analysis of directed search with wage posting. intermediate goods are Yb 5 (1 2 ub)l and Yg 5 (1 2 ug)(1 2 l), where l is the fraction of workers…...
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...The results in Acemoglu and Shimer (1999b) also imply that when b 5 h(u), the composition of jobs would be efficient. results are unaffected, but we obtain the additional result that an increase in the progressivity of unemployment benefits increases the fraction of low-wage jobs....
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...The main 13 See Acemoglu and Shimer (1999b) for a discussion of the differences between directed search and wage posting....
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...H ig h er un em pl oy m en t in su ra n ce m ak es in di ff er en ce cu rv es fl at te r, h av in g th e op po si te ef fe ct . of the moral hazard problem (e.g., Holmstrom 1979)....
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...One can argue that adverse selection, as in Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976), might prevent this, but more analysis would be required to reach a definite conclusion. unemployment insurance 921 Our analysis also contains methodological improvements over the existing search literature....
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