Moral Hazard and Optimal Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with Heterogeneous Skills
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Unemployment Insurance; Moral Hazard; Redistribution; Dynamic General Equilibrium; Heterogeneous Agents; Voting;All these keywords.
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- J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
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