Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance
This paper studies the implications of individuals’ knowledge of future job loss for the existence of an unemployment insurance (UI) market. Learning about job loss leads to consumption decreases and spousal labor supply increases. This suggests existing willingness to pay estimates for UI understate its value. But, it yields new estimation methodologies that account for and exploit responses to learning about future job loss. Although my new willingness to pay estimates exceed previous estimates, I estimate much larger frictions imposed by private information. This suggests privately-traded UI policies would be too adversely selected to be profitable, at any price.
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Copy CitationNathaniel Hendren, "Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance," NBER Working Paper 21819 (2015), https://doi.org/10.3386/w21819.Download Citation
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Nathaniel Hendren, 2017. "Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance," American Economic Review, vol 107(7), pages 1778-1823.
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