Unemployment insurance with hidden savings Academic Article

abstract

• This paper studies the design of unemployment insurance when neither the searching effort nor the savings of an unemployed agent can be monitored. If the principal could monitor the savings, the optimal policy would leave the agent savings-constrained. With a constant absolute risk-aversion (CARA) utility function, we obtain a closed form solution of the optimal contract. Under the optimal contract, the agent is neither saving nor borrowing constrained. Counter-intuitively, his consumption declines faster than implied by Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997) [1]. The efficient allocation can be implemented by an increasing benefit during unemployment and a constant tax during employment. 2010 Elsevier Inc.

authors

• Zhang, Yuzhe

published proceedings

• Journal of Economic Theory

author list (cited authors)

• Mitchell, M., & Zhang, Y.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• Mitchell, Matthew||Zhang, Yuzhe

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Economic Theory  Journal

keywords

• 8 Decent Work And Economic Growth

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jet.2010.03.016

start page

• 2078

end page

• 2107

volume

• 145

issue

• 6

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.jet.2010.03.016

user-defined tag

• 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth