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Optimal unemployment insurance in GE: A robust calibration approach

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  • Cozzi, Marco

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A simple Monte Carlo calibration approach is implemented in a GE model with uninsurable employment risk to quantitatively study the optimal replacement rate of a public unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. The optimal UI sampling distribution is found to be bimodal.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Economics Letters.

Volume (Year): 117 (2012)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 28-31

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Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:117:y:2012:i:1:p:28-31

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Keywords: Calibration methods; Unemployment risk; Optimal unemployment insurance; Heterogeneous agents; Incomplete markets;

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