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Home | Events Archive | Redistribution and Unemployment Insurance
Seminar

Redistribution and Unemployment Insurance


  • Series
  • Speaker(s)
    Antoine Ferey (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
  • Field
    Macroeconomics
  • Location
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Campus Woudestein, van der Goot, room M3-03
    Rotterdam
  • Date and time

    February 27, 2023
    11:30 - 12:30

Abstract

This paper analyzes the interactions between redistribution and unemployment insurance policies and their implications for the optimal design of tax-benefit systems. In a setting where individuals with different earnings abilities are exposed to unemployment risk on the labor market, I characterize the optimal income tax schedule and the optimal unemployment benefit schedule in terms of empirically estimable sufficient statistics. I provide a Pareto-efficiency condition for tax-benefit systems that implies a tight link between optimal redistribution and optimal unemployment insurance: the steeper the profile of income taxes is, the flatter the profile of unemployment benefits should be, and vice versa. Optimal replacement rates are therefore monotonically decreasing with earnings, from 1 at the bottom of the earnings distribution to 0 at the top, and redistribution through unemployment benefits is efficient. Empirical applications show that these interactions between redistribution and unemployment insurance have important quantitative implications.

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