Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75540 
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Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 297
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In many OECD countries, e.g. in Germany, France, or the UK, unemploy-ment compensation consists of unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance. Unemployment assistance is provided subsequent to the expiration of entitlement to unemployment insurance and is lower. The effects of this two-tier unemployment compensation system are studied in a general equilibrium job search model with endogenous distributions of in-come, wealth, and employment which is calibrated with regard to the charac-teristics of the German economy. Our results are as follows: i) employment is a decreasing function of both unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance. ii) Savings are (not) a monotone increasing function of unemployment insurance (unemployment assistance payments). iii) Optimal unemployment compensation payments are found to be a decreasing function over time.
Subjects: 
Unemployment compensation
search unemployment
general equilibrium
overlapping generations
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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