Self‐financing Unemployment Insurance and Bargaining Structure

Helge Sanner

LABOUR, 2003, vol. 17, issue 2, 229-246

Abstract: Abstract. This study examines how the size of trade unions relative to the labor force impacts on the desirability of different organizational forms of self‐financing unemployment insurance (UI). For this purpose, we compare the outcome of a model with a uniform payroll tax to a model where workers pay taxes according to their systematic risk of unemployment. Our results highlight the importance of the bargaining structure for the assessment of a particular UI scheme. Most importantly, it depends on the relative size of the unions whether efficiency favors a uniform or a differentiated UI scheme.

Date: 2003
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Working Paper: Bargaining Structure and Regional Unemployment Insurance (2001)
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