Optimal unemployment insurance in search equilibrium

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 370-399

  Fredriksson, Peter ^a   Holmlund, Bertil ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035636031     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319565     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Atkinson, Anthony, and Micklewright, John. "Unemployment Compensation and Labor Market Transitions: A Critical Review." Journal of Economic Literature 29 (December 1991): 1679-1727.
2. Baily, Martin Neil. "Some Aspects of Optimal Unemployment Insurance." Journal of Public Economics 10 (December 1978): 379-402.
3. Blanchard, Olivier Jean, and Diamond, Peter. "The Beveridge Curve." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, no. 1 (1989): 1-60.
4. Blank, Rebecca, and Card, David. "Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured Employment: Is There an Explanation?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (November 1991): 1157-89.
5. Blau, David, and Robins, Philip. "Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed." Journal of Political Economy 98 (June 1990): 637-55.
6. Cahuc, Pierre, and Lehmann, Etienne. "Equilibrium Unemployment and the Time Sequence of Unemployment Benefits." Working Paper no. 97.49. Paris: Université de Paris I, 1997.
7. Carruth, Alan, and Oswald, Andrew. "Miners' Wages in Post-War Britain: An Application of a Model of Trade Union Behaviour." Economic Journal 86 (December 1985): 1003-20.
8. Costain, James. "Unemployment Insurance with Endogenous Search Intensity and Precautionary Savings." Working Paper no. 243. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 1997.
9. Davidson, Carl, and Woodbury, Stephen. "Optimal Unemployment Insurance." Journal of Public Economics 64 (June 1997): 359-87.
10. Diamond, Peter. "An Alternative to Steady State Comparisons." Economics Letters 5 (1980): 7-9.
11. Farber, Henry. "Individual Preferences and Union Wage Determination: The Case of the United Mine Worker." Journal of Political Economy 86 (October 1978): 923-42.
12. Flemming, John. "Aspects of Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Search, Leisure, Savings and Capital Market Imperfections." Journal of Public Economics 10 (December 1978): 403-25.
13. Hansen, Gary, and Imrohoroglu, Ayse. "The Role of Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with Liquidity Constraints and Moral Hazard." Journal of Political Economy 100 (February 1992): 118-42.
14. Holmlund, Bertil. "Unemployment Insurance in Theory and Practice." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 100, no. 1 (1998): 113-41.
15. Hopenhayn, Hugo, and Nicolini, Juan Pablo. "Optimal Unemployment Insurance." Journal of Political Economy 105 (April 1997): 412-38.
16. Hosios, Arthur. "On the Efficiency of Matching and Related Models of Search and Unemployment." Review of Economic Studies 57 (April 1990): 279-98.
17. Jones, Stephen. "Job Search Methods, Intensity and Effects." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 51 (August 1989): 277-96.
18. King, Robert; Plosser, Charles; and Rebelo, Sergio. "Production, Growth and Business Cycles I: The Basic Neoclassical Model." Journal of Monetary Economics 21 (March/May 1988): 195-232.
19. Layard, Richard, Nickell, Stephen, and Jackman, Richard. Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
20. Martin, John. "Measures of Replacement Rates for the Purpose of International Comparisons: A Note." OECD Economic Studies 26 (1996): 99-115.
21. Moen, Espen. "Competitive Search Equilibrium." Journal of Political Economy 105 (April 1997): 385-411.
22. Mortensen, Dale. "Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Decisions." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 30 (July 1977): 505-17.
23. _. "Reducing Supply-Side Disincentives to Job Creation." In Reducing Unemployment: Current Issues and Policy Issues. Kansas City, MO.: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1994.
24. _. "Unemployment Insurance, Labor Market Dynamics, and Social Welfare: A Comment." Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 44 (June 1996): 83-86.
25. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Employment Outlook. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1997.
26. Pissarides, Christopher. Equilibrium Unemployment Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
27. Rothschild, Michael, and Stiglitz, Joseph. "Increasing Risk: I. A Definition." Journal of Economic Theory 2 (September 1970): 225-43.
28. Rubinstein, Ariel, and Wolinsky, Asher. "Equilibrium in a Market with Sequential Bargaining." Econometrica 53 (September 1985): 1133-50.
29. Samuelson, Paul. "Complementarity: An Essay on the 40th Anniversary of the Hicks-Allen Revolution in Demand Theory." Journal of Economic Literature 12 (December 1974): 1255-89.
30. Shavell, Stephen, and Weiss, Laurence. "The Optimal Payment of Unemployment Insurance Benefits over Time." Journal of Political Economy 87 (December 1979): 1347-62.
31. Valdivia, Victor. "Evaluating the Welfare Benefits of Unemployment Insurance." Unpublished manuscript. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1996.
32. Wadsworth, Jonathan. "Unemployment Benefits and Search Effort in the UK Labour Market." Economica 58 (February 1991 ): 17-34.
33. _. "Unemployment Benefits and Labour Market Transitions in Britain." Discussion Paper no. 73. London: London School of Economics, Centre for Economic Performance, 1992.
34. Wang, Cheng, and Williamson, Stephen. "Unemployment Insurance with Moral Hazard in a Dynamic Economy." Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 44 (June 1996): 1-41.