Does unemployment insurance crowd out home production?

Temel Taskin

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: In this paper, we study the interaction between self insurance and public insurance. In particular, we provide evidence on the relationship between unemployment insurance benefits and home production using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the state-level unemployment insurance data of the U.S. The empirical results suggest that moving to a two times more generous state would decrease time spent on home production about 20% for unemployed. Then we pursue a quantitative assessment using a dynamic competitive equilibrium model in which households do home production as well as market production. The model is able to generate the empirical facts regarding unemployment benefits and home production. The fact that unemployment insurance benefits crowd out home production is interpreted as a substitution between the two insurance mechanisms against loss of earnings during unemployment spells.

Keywords: Unemployment insurance; home production; public insurance; self insurance; heterogeneous agents models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 D91 E21 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-02
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