Social Insurance, Economic Policy and the Labor Market

雨果A.罗切斯特霍本海因大学SBR-9514717 这项研究将审查对许多其他国家的社会保险设计有影响的失业保险的几个方面。 私家侦探将与西班牙的Antonio Cabrales博士和阿根廷的Juan巴勃罗Nicolini博士进行联合研究，以了解其研究项目的国际层面。 第一个调查的方面是失业保险对工人再就业的不利影响。 失业保险可以促使工人减少他们的搜索强度或拒绝一些工作机会。 研究将试图确定失业保险的最佳设计，以提供保险，但仍然提供适当的激励再就业。 第二个方面将是了解不同工人在其工作历史中的能力。 失业保险将随着时间的推移将收入从高能力工人转移到低能力工人。 这将对失业保险的优化设计产生影响。 研究的最后一个方面将着眼于创造就业和破坏就业的过程，以了解这是否也应该影响失业保险的最佳设计，如果是的话，以何种方式。

Hugo A. Hopenhayn University of Rochester SBR-9514717 This research will examine several aspects of unemployment insurance that have implications for the design of social insurance in many other countries. The P.I. will undertake joint research with Dr. Antonio Cabrales of Spain and Dr. Juan Pablo Nicolini of Argentina to understand the international dimension of his research project. The first aspect investigated will be the adverse impact of unemployment insurance on the reemployment of workers. Unemployment insurance can induce workers to reduce their search intensity or to decline some job offers. The research will attempt to determine the optimal design of unemployment insurance to provide insurance yet still provide suitable incentives for reemployment. The second aspect will be the ability to learn about different workers abilities over their work history. Unemployment insurance will transfer income from high to low ability workers over time. This will have an impact on the optimal design of unemployment insurance. The final aspect of the research will look at the job creation and job destruction process to learn if this too should affect the optimal design of unemployment insurance, and if so, in what way.