Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/176917 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6898
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper compares the decentral organization of unemployment insurance in member states of a state union with the central organization at the upper union’ level. In a model of two countries the labor force and the firm owners can migrate between the states. Labor markets exhibit unemployment due to trade union’s bargaining about the wage rate. In a decentral scenario the states organize independently unemployment insurance and decide about the rate on wages contributed to the insurance budget. Due to open borders they have to take account of migration effects. However, with perfect mobility between the states each government chooses a socially optimal contribution rate such that workers are fully insured against unemployment. In the central scenario the governments overestimate the costs of insurance when bargaining about the contribution rate and observing the common insurance budget of both countries. This leads to a less than socially optimal contribution rate.
Subjects: 
unemployment insurance policy
state union
centralization
migration externalities
JEL: 
F66
H77
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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