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The Optimal Dole With Risk Aversion And Job Destruction, Carl Davidson, Stephen A. Woodbury
The Optimal Dole With Risk Aversion And Job Destruction, Carl Davidson, Stephen A. Woodbury
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
This paper extends earlier research on optimal unemployment insurance (UI) by developing an equilibrium search model that encompasses simultaneously several theoretical and institutional features that have been treated one-by-one (or not at all) in previous discussions of optimal UI. In particular, the model we develop allows us to determine the optimal potential duration of UI benefits as well as the optimal UI benefit amount; assumes (realistically) that not all workers are eligible for UI benefits; allows examination of various degrees of risk aversion by workers; models labor demand so that the job destruction effects of UI are taken into account; …
Growth In Disability Benefits: Explanations And Policy Implications, Kalman Rupp Editor, David C. Stapleton Editor
Growth In Disability Benefits: Explanations And Policy Implications, Kalman Rupp Editor, David C. Stapleton Editor
Upjohn Press
This collection of original papers reveals why caseloads of the nation's two largest income entitlement programs for disability - Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - have soared.