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Optimal social insurance, incentives, and transition


Abstract: We study transition in a model in which the process of moving workers from matches in the state sector to new matches in the private sector takes time and involves uncertainty. When there are incentive problems in this rematching process, the optimal scheme may involve forced layoffs, involuntary unemployment, and a recession.

Keywords: Employment (Economic theory);

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Part of Series: Working Papers

Publication Date: 1995

Number: 546