Endogenous Adverse Selection and Unemployment Insurance
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Political Economy
- Vol. 106 (4) , 806-827
- https://doi.org/10.1086/250030
Abstract
In this paper we consider how the presence of private information may explain the failure of the private sector to provide unemployment insurance. In particular, we show how the interaction of private information regarding employees' preferences for work with the unobservable level of effort exerted on the job may explain the absence of private unemployment insurance. We also reflect on the implications of our findings for the role of the public sector in providing unemployment insurance.Keywords
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