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Liquidity and insurance for the unemployed

by Robert Shimer

2005 36 pages eng

We study the optimal design of unemployment insurance for workers sampling job opportunities over time. We focus on the optimal timing of benefits and the desirability of allowing workers to freely access a riskless asset. When workers have constant absolute risk aversion preferences it is optimal t…

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