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Home Production and the Optimal Rate of Unemployment Insurance

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  • Temel Taskin

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In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a signifi- cant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by recently documented empirical facts, we augment an incomplete markets model of unem- ployment with a home production technology, which allows unemployed workers to use their extra non-market time as partial insurance against the drop in income due to unemployment. In the benchmark model, we find that the optimal replacement rate in the presence of home production is roughly 40% of wages, which is 40% lower than the no home production model’s optimal replacement rate of 65%. The 40% optimal rate is also close to the estimated rate in practice. The fact that home production makes a significant difference in the optimal unemployment insurance rate is robust to a variety of parameterizations and alternative model environments.

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Paper provided by Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey in its series Working Papers with number 1220.

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Date of creation: 2012
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Handle: RePEc:tcb:wpaper:1220

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Keywords: Unemployment insurance; home production; incomplete markets; self-insurance;

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  1. Home Production and the Optimal Rate of Unemployment Insurance
    by Christian Zimmermann in NEP-DGE blog on 2012-09-05 13:33:18

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