Unemployment insurance an analysis of optimal mechanisms under aggregate shocks

The purpose of this work is to provide a brief overview of the literature on the optimal design of unemployment insurance systems by analyzing some of the most influential articles published over the last three decades on the subject and extend the main results to a multiple aggregate shocks environment. The properties of optimal contracts are discussed in light of the key assumptions commonly made in theoretical publications on the area. Moreover, the implications of relaxing each of these hypothesis is reckoned as well. The analysis of models of only one unemployment spell starts from the seminal work of Shavell and Weiss (1979). In a simple and common setting, unemployment benefits policies, wage taxes and search effort assignments are covered. Further, the idea that the UI distortion of the relative price of leisure and consumption is the only explanation for the marginal incentives to search for a job is discussed, putting into question the reduction in labor supply caused by social insurance, usually interpreted as solely an evidence of a dynamic moral hazard caused by a substitution effect. In addition, the paper presents one characterization of optimal unemployment insurance contracts in environments in which workers experience multiple unemployment spells. Finally, an extension to multiple aggregate shocks environment is considered. The paper ends with a numerical analysis of the implications of i.i.d. shocks to the optimal unemployment insurance mechanism.

O impacto da ampliação da cobertura previdenciária sobre a poupança na China

O objetivo deste trabalho é quantificar o impacto de um aumento da cobertura previdenciária sobre a poupança na China. Tal resposta é obtida com um modelo simples de gerações superpostas de dois períodos. Assumindo um sistema de repartição que cubra apenas uma parte da população, pelo qual os trabalhadores jovens financiam os aposentados idosos, espera-se que uma maior abrangência do sistema reduza a poupança - ela não precisaria ser tão grande graças à transferência feita pelo Estado no futuro. Estima-se uma queda de 36,6% na poupança.

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