Incomplete unemployment insurance and aggregate fluctuations

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 602-636

  Obiols Homs, Francesc ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aggregate fluctuations; Idiosyncratic shocks; Incomplete insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038011593     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1094-2025(03)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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