Publication: Optimal Unemployment Insurance : Consumption versus Expenditure
dc.affiliation.dpto | UC3M. Departamento de EconomÃa | es |
dc.contributor.author | Campos, Rodolfo G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Reggio, Iliana | |
dc.contributor.editor | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-12T13:13:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-12T13:13:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-02-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | We study the optimal provision of unemployment insurance (UI) in a framework that distinguishes between consumption and expenditure. We derive a "sufficient statistics" formula for optimal UI that is expressed terms of observable variables and can therefore be used in applied work. Recent research has shown that unemployed households pay less per unit of consumption than employed households. This finding has two counteracting effects on the optimal level of UI. On the one hand, consumption smoothing benefits identified from expenditure data overestimate the true marginal benefits of UI. On the other hand, UI benefits become more valuable because they buy more consumption when unemployed. In an optimal design, which effect dominates depends on the curvature of the utility function. We show that for relative risk aversion larger than one the first effect dominates, leading to lower levels of optimal UI. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Spanish Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad (Grants ECO2012-38134 and ECO2012-31358). | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2340-5031 | |
dc.identifier.repec | we1502 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10016/20042 | |
dc.identifier.uxxi | DT/0000001324 | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | UC3M Working papers. Economics | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 15-02 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | Gobierno de España. ECO2012-38134 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | Gobierno de España. ECO2012-31358 | es |
dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España | es |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ | |
dc.subject.jel | D11 | |
dc.subject.jel | J64 | |
dc.subject.jel | J65 | |
dc.subject.jel | J68 | |
dc.subject.other | consumption | en |
dc.subject.other | expenditure | en |
dc.subject.other | consumption-smoothing | en |
dc.subject.other | social insurance | en |
dc.subject.other | unemployment insurance | en |
dc.title | Optimal Unemployment Insurance : Consumption versus Expenditure | en |
dc.type | working paper | * |
dc.type.hasVersion | SMUR | * |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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