Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76324 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 804
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an analytically tractable model allowing moral hazard, adverse selection and hidden savings. Analytical results show that when the search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only exception is when there is moral hazard and no hidden savings. In general, adverse selection problems calls for increasing benefits, moral hazard problems for constant benefits and decreasing search productivity for decreasing benefits.
Subjects: 
unemployment benefits
search
moral hazard
adverse selection
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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